1 Samuel 10:3

Translations

Modern

Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.

Traditional

Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Beth–el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

Literal

And you shall go on from there and beyond, and come to the Oak of Tabor, and there will meet you three men going up to God at Bethel, one carrying three young goats, and one carrying three loaves of bread, and one carrying a skin of wine;

Latin

Cumque abieris inde, et ultra transieris, et veneris ad quercum Thabor, invenient te ibi tres viri ascendentes ad Deum in Bethel, unus portans tres hædos, et alius tres tortas panis, et alius portans lagenam vini.

Original

Hebrew

English

Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.

Notes

1 Samuel 10:3

Oak of Tabor: This place is in Benjamin and should not be mixed up with the village named Tabor in Zebulun (1 Chronicles 6:77).
Bethel: See study note on 1 Samuel 7:16.

1 Samuel 10:2–6

These three "signs" were meant to convince a hesitant Saul (1 Samuel 9:21) that he was truly chosen to be king.

1 Samuel 9:1–11:15

Saul became powerful through three main events:

Samuel secretly anointed him (1 Samuel 9:1–10:16).
He was chosen by casting lots (1 Samuel 10:17–27).
He defeated the Ammonites (1 Samuel 11:1–15).

Theme notes and profiles

Samuel Saul The Spirit’s Presence

Events

Reign of Saul

Related verses

Genesis 35:3
Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
Genesis 28:22
And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”
Genesis 35:1
Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
Genesis 28:19
…and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.
Psalm 89:12
North and south You created; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.
Leviticus 7:13
Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.
Leviticus 23:13
…along with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil—a food offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.
Leviticus 1:10
If, however, one’s offering is a burnt offering from the flock—from the sheep or goats—he is to present an unblemished male.
Genesis 35:6–8
So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
Leviticus 3:6
If, however, one’s peace offering to the LORD is from the flock, he must present a male or female without blemish.
Judges 8:18
Next, Gideon asked Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men did you kill at Tabor?” “Men like you,” they answered, “each one resembling the son of a king.”
Joshua 19:12
From Sarid it turned eastward along the border of Chisloth-tabor and went on to Daberath and up to Japhia.

Places

Bethel: Important city in Israel, associated with Abraham and Jacob Tabor: Oak tree near Bethel, mentioned in Samuel's prophecy

Glossary

Samuel, Books of First and Second Tabor, Oak of

Topics

Bread was Formed Into: Loaves Bread: How Prepared: Made Into Loaves Salutations were Given by all Passers-By Symbols and Similitudes: Men Meeting Saul Tabor: A Plain

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