12. And someone from that district responded, “And who is their father?” Thus the saying arose, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
13. When he came out of the prophetic ecstasy, he went home.
14. Saul’s uncle asked him and his servant, “Where have you been?” Saul replied, “Looking for the donkeys. When we could not find them, we went to Samuel.”
15. Saul’s uncle said, “Tell me, then, what Samuel said to you.”
16. Saul said to his uncle, “He assured us that the donkeys had been found.” But Saul told him nothing about what Samuel had said about the kingship.
17. Samuel called the people together to the Lord at Mizpah
18. and addressed the Israelites: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: It was I who brought Israel up from Egypt and delivered you from the power of the Egyptians and from the power of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.