8. The servant answered him again. ‘Look,’ he said, ‘I have a quarter of a shekela of silver. I will give it to the man of God so that he will tell us what way to take.’
9. (Formerly in Israel, if someone went to enquire of God, they would say, ‘Come, let us go to the seer,’ because the prophet of today used to be called a seer.)
10. ‘Good,’ Saul said to his servant. ‘Come, let’s go.’ So they set out for the town where the man of God was.
11. As they were going up the hill to the town, they met some young women coming out to draw water, and they asked them, ‘Is the seer here?’
12. ‘He is,’ they answered. ‘He’s ahead of you. Hurry now; he has just come to our town today, for the people have a sacrifice at the high place.