1 Samuel 9:16

16 “Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince1 over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For tI have seen2 my people, because their cry has come to me.”

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Exodus 3:7
Then the LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings,


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2 View All Leviticus 19:27
ch. 21:5; [Isa. 15:2; Jer. 9:26; 48:37]