13 And when he had finished prophesying, he went to the high place.

14 Then Saul’s ^auncle said to him and his servant, “Where did you go?” So he said, “To look for the donkeys. When we saw that they were nowhere to be found, we went to Samuel.”  ‡

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.  ‡

17 Then Samuel called the people together ^ato the Lord ^bat Mizpah,  ‡