1Sa 10:27 | HCSB | STEP | But some wicked men said , “How can this guy save us?” They despised him and did not bring him a gift , but Saul said nothing .

1 Samuel 10:27

27 But some ^{▼▼wicked men/ perverted men: Literally sons of Belial; the basic meaning of Belial in Hebrew is "worthless".}wicked men said, “How can this guy save us?” They despised him and did not bring him a gift, ^b but Saul said nothing. ^{▼▼DSS add Nahash king of the Ammonites had been severely oppressing the Gadites and Reubenites. He gouged out the right eye of each of them and brought fear and trembling on Israel. Of the Israelites beyond the Jordan none remained whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out. But there were 7,000 men who had escaped from the Ammonites and entered Jabesh-gilead.
,} ^{▼▼Lit gift, and he was like a mute person}