1 Samuel 10:17-19

New American Standard Bible

Saul Publicly Chosen King

¹⁷ Now Samuel called the ^(A)people together to the Lord at Mizpah; ¹⁸ and he said to the sons of Israel, “^(B)This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘I brought Israel up from Egypt, and I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the ^[a]power of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’ ¹⁹ But today you ^(C)have rejected your God, who saves you from all your catastrophes and your distresses; yet you have ^[b]said, ‘No, but put a king over us!’ Now then, ^(D)present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your ^[c]groups of thousands.”