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Saul, the Requested King, Introduced

Now there was a man from Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjaminite, a very wealthy man.[a] He had a son whose name was Saul,[b] a young and handsome man. There was not a man from the Israelites[c] more handsome than he was; from his shoulders up, he was taller than all the people.

Now the female donkeys of Kish the father of Saul got lost, and Kish said to Saul his son, “Please take one of the servants with you and get up; go and seek the female donkeys.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 9:1 Literally “a man mighty of wealth” or “a man mighty of valor”
  2. 1 Samuel 9:2 The name “Saul” means “the requested one”
  3. 1 Samuel 9:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”