1 Samuel 9:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Jawab bujang itu pula kepada Saul: "Masih ada padaku seperempat syikal perak; itu dapat aku berikan kepada abdi Allah itu, maka ia akan memberitahukan kepada kita tentang perjalanan kita."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Jawab bujang itu pula kepada Saul: "Masih ada padaku seperempat syikal perak; itu dapat aku berikan kepada abdi Allah itu, maka ia akan memberitahukan kepada kita tentang perjalanan kita."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sahut hamba itu pula kepada Saul, katanya: Tengoklah, dalam tangan sahaya ada lagi sahaya dapati seperempat syikal perak, bolehlah sahaya berikan dia kepada aziz Allah, supaya ditunjuknya jalan kepada kita.

Contextual Overview

³ And the asses of this Cis Sauls father were lost, and Cis sayd to Saul his sonne: Take one of the laddes with thee, and arise, go and seke the asses. ⁴ And he went through mount Ephraim, and passed through the lande of Salisa: but they founde them not. Then they went through the lande of Salim, and there they were not. When they went also through the land of Iemini, they found them not. ⁵ At the last, when they were come to the lande of Zuph, Saul sayde to his lad that was with him: Come, let vs returne, lest my father leaue caring for the asses, and take thought for vs. ⁶ He sayde vnto him: Behold, there is in this citie a man of God, & he is an honorable man, all that he sayth, commeth suerly to passe: Now then let vs go thyther, if so be he can shewe vs what way we may go. ⁷ Then sayde Saul to his lad: If we will go, what shall we bring the man? For the bread is spent in our vessels, & there is no other present to bring the man of God: what haue we? ⁸ And the lad aunswered Saul againe, and sayde: Behold I haue found about me the fourth part of a sicle of siluer, that will I geue the man of God, to tell vs our way. ⁹ (Before time in Israel when a man went to seke an aunswere of God, thus wyse he spake, Come and let vs go to the Seer: For he that is now called a prophete, was in the olde tyme called a Seer. ¹⁰ Then sayde Saul to his lad, wel sayd of thee: Come, let vs go. And so they wet vnto the citie where the man of God was.

Bible Verse Review
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I have here at hand: Heb. there is found in my hand, 1 Samuel 9:8

Reciprocal: Exodus 34:20 - none Numbers 22:7 - rewards of divination 1 Kings 13:7 - I will give 1 Kings 14:3 - And take 2 Kings 5:5 - and took

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the servant answered Saul again, and said,.... As he had answered him before, when Saul proposed to return home, by telling him there was an honourable man of God in the city near at hand, that might possibly be able to direct them which way they should go to find the asses: so he answers him again with respect to the present it was proper to carry with them, and what he had in his hands to make:

behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: a "zuze" of silver, as the Targum, four of which made a shekel, about seven pence halfpenny of our money, and scarce so much:

that will I give to the man of God to tell us our way; that they should go to find the asses: which he would give him very freely for that purpose: both Saul and his servant must entertain a mean opinion of prophets, and men of God, and especially of so great a man as Samuel, that he should be employed at any time in directing persons in such cases, and take money for so doing, and so small a gratuity as this before mentioned; though it seems as if, at some times, something of this kind was done by prophets, and men of God, which might be permitted to keep the people from going to diviners and soothsayers.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The fourth part of a shekel - In value about sixpence. Probably the shekel, like our early English silver coins, was divided into four quarters by a cross, and actually subdivided, when required, into half and quarter shekels.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 9:8. The fourth part of a shekel of silver — We find from the preceding verse, that the bread or provisions which they had brought with them for their journey was expended, else a part of that would have been thought a suitable present; and here the fourth part of a shekel of silver, about ninepence of our money, was deemed sufficient: therefore the present was intended more as a token of respect than as an emolument.