11And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
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And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. …
They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-17)Here, I. Saul, by an ordinary enquiry, is directed to Samuel, 1 Sam. 9:11-14. Gibeah of Saul was not twenty miles from Ramah where Samuel dwelt, and was near to Mizpeh where he often judged Israel, and yet, it seems, Saul had lived so very privately, and had taken so little notice of public affairs, that he had never seen Samuel, for when he met him (1 Sam. 9:18) he did not know him, so that there…
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