Then Saul said to his servant, “But look, if we go, what shall we bring the man? For the bread is gone from our sacks and there is (A)no gift to bring to the man of God. What do we have?” The servant answered Saul again and said, “Look, I have in my hand a fourth of a shekel of silver; I will give it to the man of God and he will (B)tell us our way.”

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Saul said to his servant, “If we go, what can we give the man? The food in our sacks is gone. We have no gift(A) to take to the man of God. What do we have?”

The servant answered him again. “Look,” he said, “I have a quarter of a shekel[a] of silver. I will give it to the man of God so that he will tell us what way to take.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 9:8 That is, about 1/10 ounce or about 3 grams

Then the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and (A)I will give you a gift.”

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The king said to the man of God, “Come home with me for a meal, and I will give you a gift.”(A)

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42 Now a man came from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh grain in his sack. And Elisha said, “(A)Give them to the people that they may eat.”

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Feeding of a Hundred

42 A man came from Baal Shalishah,(A) bringing the man of God twenty loaves(B) of barley bread(C) baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” Elisha said.

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