1 Samuel 10:2-3

Saul Anointed King

² When you depart from me today, you will meet two men by _f Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, _g 'The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now _h your father has ceased to care about the donkeys and is anxious about you, saying, "What shall I do about my son?"' ³ Then you shall go on from there farther and come to the _i oak of Tabor. Three men _j going up _k to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.

1. Cross References
   Genesis 35:19 - 20
   So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
   
2. Cross References
   1 Samuel 9:3 - 4
   Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. So Kish said to Saul his son, "Take one of the young men with you, and arise, go and look for the donkeys.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Samuel 9:5
   When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, "Come, let us go back, lest my father cease to care about the donkeys and become anxious about us.
   
4. Cross References
   Genesis 13:18
   So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
   
5. Cross References
   Judges 20:31
   And the people of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city. And as at other times they began to strike and kill some of the people in the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel.
   
6. Cross References
   Genesis 28:22
   And this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.
   Genesis 35:1
   God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.
   Genesis 35:3
   Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.
   Genesis 35:7
   And there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.