Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went to the city where the man of God was.
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Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went to the city where the man of God was.
Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God was.
And Saul said to his servant, “Your word is good. Come, let us go.” And they went to the city where the man of God was there.
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went to the city where the man of God was.
“Good,” said Saul to his servant. “Come, let us go.” So they set out for the city where the man of God was.
“Good,” said Saul to his servant. “Come, let us go.” So they set out for the city where the man of God was.
Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God was.
Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God was.
Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God was.
Then saide Saul to his seruant, Well saide, come, let vs goe: so they went into the citie where the man of God was.
And Saul said to his servant: Thy word is very good, come, let us go. And they went into the city, where the man of God was.
And Saul saith to his young man, `Thy word `is' good; come, we go;' and they go unto the city where the man of God `is'.
And Saul says to his young man, “Your word [is] good; come, we go”; and they go to the city where the man of God [is].
Then Saul said to his servant, “Well said. Come, let us go.” So they went to the city where the man of God was.
And Saul said to his servant, “Your word is good. Come, let us go.” And they went to the city where the man of God was there.
And Saul said to his servant, Well said: come, let us go. So they went to the city where the man of God was.
Then Saul said to his servant, “Well said. Come! Let’s go.” So they went to the city where the man of God was.
Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go: so they went to the city where the man of God was.
“That's good,” Saul told his servant. “So let's go.” They went to the town where the man of God was.
Then Saul said to his servant, You have said well; come, let us go. So they went to the town where the man of God was.
Then said Saul to his servant: 'Well said; come, let us go.' So they went unto the city where the man of God was.
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 25 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 14 Hebrew tokens and 25 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר שָׁא֧וּל לְנַעֲר֛וֹ ט֥וֹב דְּבָרְךָ֖ לְכָ֣ה נֵלֵ֑כָה וַיֵּֽלְכוּ֙ אֶל הָעִ֔יר אֲשֶׁר שָׁ֖ם אִ֥ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִֽים
Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went to the city where the man of God was.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί εἶπον σαούλ πρός ὁ παιδάριον αὐτός ἀγαθός ὁ ῥῆμα δεῦρο καί πορεύομαι καί πορεύομαι εἰς ὁ πόλις ὅς εἰμί ἐκεῖ ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὁ θεός
And Saul said to his servant, Well said, come and let us go: and they went to the city where the man of God was.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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וַאֲמַר שָׁאוּל לְעוּלֵימֵיהּ תַּקִין פִּתְגָמָךְ אִיתָא נֵיזֵיל וַאֲזַלוּ לְקַרְתָּא דְתַמָן נְבִיָא דַיָי:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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1 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 14 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is naʻar (“boy”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Samuel 9:10 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.