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1 Samuel

1 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not be­cause the LORD hath anoint­ed thee ­to be cap­tain over his in­her­i­tance? 2 When thou art de­part­ed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepul­chre in the bor­der of Ben­jamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The ass­es which thou wen­test to seek are found: and, lo, thy fa­ther hath left the care of the ass­es, and sor­roweth for you, say­ing, What shall I do for my son? 3 Then shalt thou go on for­ward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Ta­bor, and there shall meet thee three men go­ing up to God to Bethel, one car­ry­ing three kids, and an­oth­er car­ry­ing three loaves of bread, and an­oth­er car­ry­ing a bot­tle of wine: 4 And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt re­ceive of their hands. 5 Af­ter that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the gar­ri­son of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thith­er to the city, that thou shalt meet a com­pa­ny of prophets com­ing down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, be­fore them; and they shall proph­esy: 6 And the Spir­it of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt proph­esy with them, and shalt be turned into an­oth­er man. 7 And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as oc­ca­sion serve thee; for God is with thee. 8 And thou shalt go down be­fore me to Gil­gal; and, be­hold, I will come down unto thee, to of­fer burnt of­fer­ings, and to sac­ri­fice sac­ri­fices of peace of­fer­ings: sev­en days shalt thou tar­ry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do. 9 And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him an­oth­er heart: and all those signs came to pass that day. 10 And when they came thith­er to the hill, be­hold, a com­pa­ny of prophets met him; and the Spir­it of God came upon him, and he proph­e­sied among them. 11 And it came to pass, when all that knew him be­fore­time saw that, be­hold, he proph­e­sied among the prophets, then the peo­ple said one to an­oth­er, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets? 12 And one of the same place an­swered and said, But who is their fa­ther? There­fore it be­came a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets? 13 And when he had made an end of proph­esy­ing, he came to the high place. 14 And Saul's un­cle said unto him and to his ser­vant, Whith­er went ye? And he said, To seek the ass­es: and when we saw that they were no where, we came to Samuel. 15 And Saul's un­cle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you. 16 And Saul said unto his un­cle, He told us plain­ly that the ass­es were found. But of the mat­ter of the king­dom, where­of Samuel spake, he told him not. 17 And Samuel called the peo­ple to­geth­er unto the LORD to Mizpeh; 18 And said unto the chil­dren of Is­rael, Thus saith the LORD God of Is­rael, I brought up Is­rael out of Egypt, and de­liv­ered you out of the hand of the Egyp­tians, and out of the hand of all king­doms, and of them that op­pressed you: 19 And ye have this day re­ject­ed your God, who him­self saved you out of all your ad­ver­si­ties and your tribu­la­tions; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now there­fore pre­sent your­selves be­fore the LORD by your tribes, and by your thou­sands. 20 And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Is­rael to come near, the tribe of Ben­jamin was tak­en. 21 When he had caused the tribe of Ben­jamin to come near by their fam­i­lies, the fam­i­ly of Ma­tri was tak­en, and Saul the son of Kish was tak­en: and when they sought him, he could not be found. 22 There­fore they en­quired of the LORD fur­ther, if the man should yet come thith­er. And the LORD an­swered, Be­hold, he hath hid him­self among the stuff. 23 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. 24 And Samuel said to all the peo­ple, See ye him whom the LORD hath cho­sen, that there is none like him among all the peo­ple? And all the peo­ple shout­ed, and said, God save the king. 25 Then Samuel told the peo­ple the man­ner of the king­dom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up be­fore the LORD. And Samuel sent all the peo­ple away, ev­ery man to his house. 26 And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched. 27 But the chil­dren of Be­lial said, How shall this man save us? And they de­spised him, and brought him no pre­sents. But he held his peace.