21And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
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And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?
There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-27)Providence having at length brought Samuel and Saul together, we have here an account of what passed between them in the gate, at the feast, and in private. I. In the gate of the city; passing through that, Saul found him (1 Sam. 9:18), and, little thinking that he was Samuel himself, asked him the way to Samuel’s house: Tell me where the seer’s house is ; for there he expected to find him. See ho…
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