9:17 When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said, 2 “Here is the man that I told you about! He will rule over my people.”
1 tn Heb “he” or “it”; the referent here (the ark) has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. also NIV, CEV, NLT). Others, however, take the referent to be the
2 tn Heb “responded.”