14. Saul’s uncle asked him and his attendant, “Where did you go? ”“To look for the donkeys,” Saul answered. “When we saw they weren’t there, we went to Samuel.”
15. “Tell me,” Saul’s uncle asked, “what did Samuel say to you? ”
16. Saul told him, “He assured us the donkeys had been found.” However, Saul did not tell him what Samuel had said about the matter of kingship.
17. Samuel summoned the people to the Lord at Mizpah
18. and said to the Israelites, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the power of the Egyptians and all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’
19. But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions. You said to Him, ‘You must set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and clans.”