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9:16 Yahweh doesn’t say, “he will come to you,” but rather, “I will send him to you.” Saul was unaware that it was Yahweh who had caused the donkeys to stray, and that it was Yahweh who prevented Saul from being able to locate them. Second Samuel 7:8 is central to the conception of the נָגִיד (nagid): “Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David: This is what Yahweh of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep to be נָגִיד (nagid) over my people Israel.” The translation
1 Samuel 9:16