1 Samuel 9:2

Kish had a son called Saul, the most handsome young man in all of Israel. He was head and shoulders taller than anyone else.

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In The King James Version

And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

In Context

1There was a wealthy and influential man from the tribe of Benjamin, whose name was Kish son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Bekorath, son of Aphiah, a descendant of Benjamin.

3One time the donkeys of Saul's father Kish went astray. Kish told his son Saul, “Please go and look for the donkeys. You can take one of the servants with you.”

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Cross References

Numbers 13:33We even saw giants there—people descended from Anak the giant! Compared to them we looked like grasshoppers, and we must have looked like that to them too!”

1 Samuel 10:23They ran and brought Saul over. When he stood among the people, he was head and shoulders taller than anyone else.

1 Samuel 17:4Then a champion came out of the Philistine camp. His name was Goliath from Gath, and he was six cubits and a span tall.

1 Chronicles 8:33Ner was the father of Kish, Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malki-Shua, Abinadab and Esh-Baal.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 9:2-3

The Parentage of Saul. ( b. c. 1075.) 1 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power. 2 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people. We are here told, 1. What a good family Saul was of, v. 1 . He was of the tribe of Benjamin; so… Read the whole commentary →

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