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15 And Saul’s uncle said, “Tell me, please, what Samuel said to you.”
16 So Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly that the donkeys had been afound.” But about the matter of the kingdom, he did not tell him what Samuel had said.  

Saul Proclaimed King

17 Then Samuel called the people together ato the Lord bat Mizpah,  
18 and said to the children of Israel, a“Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all kingdoms and from those who oppressed you.’  
19 aBut you have today rejected your God, who Himself saved you from all your adversities and your tribulations; and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us!’ Now therefore, present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your1 clans.”  
20 And when Samuel had acaused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was chosen.  
21 When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was chosen. And Saul the son of Kish was chosen. But when they sought him, he could not be found.
22 Therefore they ainquired of the Lord further, “Has the man come here yet?” And the Lord answered, “There he is, hidden among the equipment.”  
23 So they ran and brought him from there; and when he stood among the people, ahe was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.  
24 And Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him awhom the Lord has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?” So all the people shouted and said, b“Long live the king!”  
25 Then Samuel explained to the people athe behavior of royalty, 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 ato Gibeah; and valiant men went with him, whose hearts God had touched.  
27 aBut some brebels said, “How can this man save us?” So they despised him, cand brought him no presents. But he1 held his peace. 
Book Notes:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes

I & II Samuel

THE FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF SAMUEL. The two were, by the ancient Jews, conjoined so as to make one book, and in that form could be called the Book of Samuel with more propriety than now, the second being wholly occupied with the relation of transactions that did not take place till after the death of that eminent judge. Accordingly, in the Septuagint and the Vulgate, it is called the First and Second Books of Kings. The early portion of the First Book, down to the end of the twenty-fourth chapter, was probably written by Samuel; while the rest of it and the whole of the Second, are commonly ascribed to Nathan and Gad, founding the opinion on I Chronicles 29:29. Commentators, however, are divided about this, some supposing that the statements in I Samuel 2:26; I Samuel 3:1, indicate the hand of the judge himself, or a contemporary; while some think, from I Samuel 6:18; I Samuel 12:5; I Samuel 27:6, that its composition must be referred to a later age. It is probable, however, that these supposed marks of an after-period were interpolations of Ezra. This uncertainty, however, as to the authorship does not affect the inspired authority of the book, which is indisputable, being quoted in the New Testament (I Samuel 13:14 in Acts 13:22, and II Samuel 7:14 in Hebrews 1:5), as well as in many of the Psalms.

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