1 Samuel 10:26
Good News Translation
Saul also went back home to Gibeah. Some powerful men, whose hearts God had touched, went with him.

New Revised Standard Version
Saul also went to his home at Gibeah, and with him went warriors whose hearts God had touched.

Contemporary English Version
God had encouraged some young men to become followers of Saul, and when he returned to his hometown of Gibeah, they went with him.

New American Bible
Saul also went home to Gibeah, accompanied by warriors whose hearts the LORD had touched.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Saul also departed to his own house in Gabaa: and there went with him a part of the army, whose hearts God had touched.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Saul also departed to his own house in Gabaa: and there went with him a part of the army, whose hearts God had touched.

Gibeah

1 Samuel 11:4 The messengers therefore came to Gabaa of Saul: and they spoke these words in the hearing of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.

1 Samuel 15:34 And Samuel departed to Ramatha: but Saul went up to his house in Gabaa.

Joshua 18:28 And Sela, Eleph and Jebus, which is Jerusalem, Gabaath and Cariath: fourteen cities, and their villages. This is the possession of the children of Benjamin by their families.

Judges 19:12-16 His master answered him: I will not go into the town of another nation, who are not of the children of Israel, but I will pass over to Gabaa: . . .

Judges 20:14 But out of all the cities which were of their lot, they gathered themselves together into Gabaa, to aid them, and to fight against the whole people of Israel.

2 Samuel 21:6 Let seven men of his children be delivered unto us, that we may crucify them to the Lord in Gabaa of Saul, once the chosen of the Lord. And the king said: I will give them.

whose hearts

Ezra 1:5 Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Juda and Benjamin, and the priests, and Levites, and every one whose spirit God had raised up, to go up to build the temple of the Lord, which was in Jerusalem.

Psalm 110:3 With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee.

Acts 7:10 And delivered him out of all his tribulations: and he gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharao, the king of Egypt. And he appointed him governor over Egypt and over all his house.

Acts 13:48 And the Gentiles hearing it were glad and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to life everlasting believed.

Context
Saul Proclaimed King
25And Samuel told the people the law of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord: and Samuel sent away all the people, every one to his own house. 26Saul also departed to his own house in Gabaa: and there went with him a part of the army, whose hearts God had touched.27But the children of Belial said: Shall this fellow be able to save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents; but he dissembled as though he heard not.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 11:4
The messengers therefore came to Gabaa of Saul: and they spoke these words in the hearing of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.

1 Samuel 13:2
And Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel: and two thousand were with Saul in Machmas, and in mount Bethel: and a thousand with Jonathan in Gabaa of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent back every man to their dwellings.

1 Samuel 15:34
And Samuel departed to Ramatha: but Saul went up to his house in Gabaa.

Isaiah 10:29
They have passed in haste, Gaba is our lodging: Rama was astonished, Gabaath of Saul fled away.

1 Samuel 10:25
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