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Then Samuel took the vial of
aoil and poured
it upon his head, and he kissed him and said,
1bJehovah anoints you ruler over His
cinheritance.
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When you depart from me today, you will find two men by
aRachel’s tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you, The donkeys that you went to look for have been found; and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and is worried about you, saying, What shall I do about my son?
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Then you will go on further from there and come to the terebinth of Tabor; and three men will meet you there, going up to God at Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.
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And they will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, and you will take
them from their hand.
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After that you will come to
1the hill of God, where the Philistines’ garrison is. And as you come to the city there, you will encounter a group of prophets coming down from the
ahigh place, preceded by harp and tambourine and pipe and lyre; and they will be prophesying.
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And the
aSpirit of Jehovah will rush upon you; and you will
bprophesy with them and be turned into another man.
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And when these signs happen to you, do as you find occasion, for God is with you.
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And you shall go down before me to
aGilgal; and behold, I will come down to you to offer up burnt offerings
and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings. You shall wait
bseven days, until I come to you; then I will make known to you what you shall do.
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And so when he turned his back to depart from Samuel, God gave him another heart. And all these signs happened that day.
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And when they came there to
1the hill, there was the group of prophets,
coming to meet him. And the
aSpirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied among them.
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And when all who had known him previously saw that now he was prophesying with the prophets, the people said one to another, What is this that has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also
aamong the prophets?
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And someone from there answered and said, And who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?
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And when he finished prophesying, he came to the high place.
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And Saul’s uncle said to him and his servant, Where did you go? And he said, To look for the donkeys; and when we saw that they were not to be found, we went to Samuel.
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And Saul’s uncle said, Tell me then what Samuel said to you.
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And Saul said to his uncle, He told us clearly that the donkeys had been found. But he did not tell him about the matter of the kingdom that Samuel had spoken of.
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Then Samuel gathered the people together to Jehovah at Mizpah.
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And he said to the children of Israel, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, I
abrought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.
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But today you have rejected your God, who Himself saved you from all your calamities and distresses, and have said,
1No; but set a
aking over us. And now present yourselves
bbefore Jehovah according to your tribes and according to your thousands.
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So Samuel brought all the
atribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was
1btaken.
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And he brought the tribe of Benjamin near according to its families, and the family of Matri was taken. And Saul the son of Kish was taken. But when they sought him, he could not be found.
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Therefore they
aasked of Jehovah again, Is there yet
another man coming here? And Jehovah said, There
he is; he has hidden himself among the baggage.
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And they ran and took him from there. And when he stood up among the people, he was taller than all the people from his shoulders and up.
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And Samuel said to all the people, See him whom Jehovah has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people. And all the people shouted and said, Long live the king!
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Then Samuel told the people the
1apractice of the kingdom, and he wrote
it in a book and laid
it before Jehovah. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
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And Saul also went to his house at Gibeah, and the
men of valor, whose hearts God had touched, went with him;
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But some worthless men said, How can this man save us? And they despised him and brought him no present. But he kept silent.
