1 Samuel 10:23
New International Version
They ran and brought him out, and as he stood among the people he was a head taller than any of the others.

New Living Translation
So they found him and brought him out, and he stood head and shoulders above anyone else.

English Standard Version
Then they ran and took him from there. And when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.

Berean Standard Bible
So they ran and brought Saul, and when he stood among the people, he was a head taller than any of the others.

King James Bible
And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

New King James Version
So they ran and brought him from there; and when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.

New American Standard Bible
So they ran and took him from there, and when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.

NASB 1995
So they ran and took him from there, and when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.

NASB 1977
So they ran and took him from there, and when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.

Legacy Standard Bible
So they ran and took him from there, and he stood among the people. And he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.

Amplified Bible
So they ran and took him from there, and when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.

Christian Standard Bible
They ran and got him from there. When he stood among the people, he stood a head taller than anyone else.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They ran and got him from there. When he stood among the people, he stood a head taller than anyone else.

American Standard Version
And they ran and fetched him thence; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they ran and brought him from there, and he stood among the people and was taller than all the people, from his shoulder and above

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he ran and took him thence, and he set him in the midst of the people; and he was higher than all the people by his shoulders and upwards.

Contemporary English Version
The people ran and got Saul and brought him into the middle of the crowd. He was more than a head taller than anyone else.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they ran and fetched him thence: and he stood in the midst of the people, and he was higher than any of the people from the shoulders and upward.

English Revised Version
And they ran and fetched him thence; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They ran and got him from there. As he stood among the people, he was a head taller than everyone else.

Good News Translation
So they ran and brought Saul out to the people, and they could see that he was a foot taller than anyone else.

International Standard Version
They ran and brought him from there. When he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the others by a head.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And they ran and fetched him thence; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

Literal Standard Version
And they run and bring him there, and he stationed himself in the midst of the people, and he is higher than any of the people from his shoulder and upward.

Majority Standard Bible
So they ran and brought Saul, and when he stood among the people, he was a head taller than any of the others.

New American Bible
They ran to bring him from there; when he took his place among the people, he stood head and shoulders above all the people.

NET Bible
So they ran and brought him from there. When he took his position among the people, he stood head and shoulders above them all.

New Revised Standard Version
Then they ran and brought him from there. When he took his stand among the people, he was head and shoulders taller than any of them.

New Heart English Bible
They ran and fetched him there; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they ran and brought him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

World English Bible
They ran and got him there. When he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

Young's Literal Translation
And they run and bring him thence, and he stationed himself in the midst of the people, and he is higher than any of the people from his shoulder and upward.

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Context
Saul Proclaimed King
22So again they inquired of the LORD, “Has the man come here yet?” And the LORD replied, “Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage.” 23So they ran and brought Saul, and when he stood among the people, he was a head taller than any of the others. 24Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one the LORD has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”…

Cross References
Genesis 3:24
So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.

1 Samuel 9:2
And he had a son named Saul, choice and handsome, without equal among the Israelites--a head taller than any of the people.


Treasury of Scripture

And they ran and fetched him there: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

he was higher

1 Samuel 9:2
And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

1 Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

1 Samuel 17:4
And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

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1 Samuel 10
1. Samuel anoints Saul
2. He confirms him by prediction of three signs
9. Saul's heart is changed, and he prophesies
14. He conceals the matter of the kingdom from his uncle
17. Saul is chosen at Mizpeh by lot
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Verses 23, 24. - And when he stood. This rendering spoils the poetic force of the original, where the rapidity of their action is expressed by three preterites following hard upon one another. The Hebrew is, "And they ran, and took him thence, and he stood forth (see 1 Samuel 12:7) among the people, and he was taller," etc. And now Samuel presents him to the multitude as "the chosen of Jehovah," and the people shout their assent by saying, "Let the king live." For this the A.V. puts our English phrase, but the Hebrew exactly answers to the French Vive le roi! THE EVENTS WHICH FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY UPON SAUL'S ELECTION (vers. 25-27).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So they ran
וַיָּרֻ֙צוּ֙ (way·yā·ru·ṣū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7323: To run

and brought [Saul],
וַיִּקָּחֻ֣הוּ (way·yiq·qā·ḥu·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

and when he stood
וַיִּתְיַצֵּ֖ב (way·yiṯ·yaṣ·ṣêḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3320: To set or station oneself, take one's stand

among
בְּת֣וֹךְ (bə·ṯō·wḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8432: A bisection, the centre

the people,
הָעָ֑ם (hā·‘ām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

he was a head
מִשִּׁכְמ֖וֹ (miš·šiḵ·mōw)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7926: The neck, as the place of burdens, the spur of a, hill

taller
וַיִּגְבַּהּ֙ (way·yiḡ·bah)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1361: To soar, be lofty, to be haughty

than any
מִכָּל־ (mik·kāl)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

of the others.
הָעָ֔ם (hā·‘ām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock


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