7. “Suppose we do go,” Saul said to his attendant, “what do we take the man? The food from our packs is gone, and there’s no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have? ”
8. The attendant answered Saul: “Here, I have a piece of silver. I’ll give it to the man of God, and he will tell us our way.”
9. Formerly in Israel, a man who was going to inquire of God would say, “Come, let’s go to the seer,” for the prophet of today was formerly called the seer.
10. “Good,” Saul replied to his attendant. “Come on, let’s go.” So they went to the city where the man of God was.
11. As they were climbing the hill to the city, they found some young women coming out to draw water and asked, “Is the seer here? ”
12. The women answered, “Yes, he is ahead of you. Hurry, he just now came to the city, because there’s a sacrifice for the people at the high place today.