1st Samuel Chapter 9 verse 14 Holy Bible
And they went up to the city; `and' as they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place.
read chapter 9 in ASV
So they went up to the town, and when they came inside the town, Samuel came face to face with them on his way to the high place.
read chapter 9 in BBE
And they went up into the city. As they were coming into the midst of the city, behold, Samuel was coming out towards them, to go up to the high place.
read chapter 9 in DARBY
And they went up into the city: and when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place.
read chapter 9 in KJV
And they went up into the city: and when they had come into the city, behold, Samuel came out meeting them, to go up to the high place.
read chapter 9 in WBT
They went up to the city; [and] as they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place.
read chapter 9 in WEB
And they go up in to the city; they are coming in to the midst of the city, and lo, Samuel is coming out to meet them, to go up to the high place;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - When they were come into. More correctly, "As they were going into the city." This agrees with what is said in ver. 18, that Saul and Samuel met in the gateway. As Ramah occupied two hills, the Bamah would be on the summit of one, while the city probably nestled between them.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) Behold, Samuel came out against them.--"Saul comes before Samuel, bashfully pursuing his humble quest, in apparent unconsciousness of the power slumbering within him of aspiring and attaining to the highest place; the great seer receives him in a way quite different from all that he could have hoped or feared. At the moment of their meeting the seer has come forth from his house on the way to the solitary sacred heights of Ramah, the city of his residence, where he sacrifices on the altar to Jahveh, or is wont to partake of a sacred sacrificial repast with some of his closest friends. He at once desires to take Saul also with him, telling him beforehand how unimportant was the immediate object of his inquiries, and that the matter was already settled; but that for him and his whole house was reserved a very different and far better destiny in Israel. And though Saul, in his unassuming simplicity, would fain waive the honour which is obscurely hinted (so little does he yet know his better self), the holy man, more discerning, takes him with him to the sacrificial meal, which is already prepared; nay, assigns him the place of honour among the thirty guests before invited, while he is served with a portion of the sacrificial meat, put by, as it were, specially for him: for in like manner a portion other and higher than that of ordinary men had been long reserved for him by heaven."--Ewald.
