1 Samuel 9:1

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1 Samuel 9:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Now there was a Benjamite, a powerful man, whose name was Kish son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin.

2 And he had a son named Saul, choice and handsome, without equal among the Israelites—a head taller than any of the people.

3 One day the donkeys of Saul’s father Kish wandered off, and Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the servants and go look for the donkeys.”

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1 Samuel 14:51

Saul’s father Kish and Abner’s father Ner were sons of Abiel.

1 Chronicles 8:30

and Abdon was his firstborn son, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab,

1 Chronicles 8:31

Gedor, Ahio, Zecher,

1 Chronicles 8:32

and Mikloth, who was the father of Shimeah. These also lived alongside their relatives in Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 8:33

Ner was the father of Kish, Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.

1 Chronicles 9:36

Abdon was his firstborn son, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,

1 Chronicles 9:37

Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth.

1 Chronicles 9:38

Mikloth was the father of Shimeam. They too lived alongside their relatives in Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 9:39

Ner was the father of Kish, Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.

Acts 13:21

Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them forty years under Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin.

1 Samuel 25:2

Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.

2 Samuel 19:32

Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.

Job 1:3

and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.