14. Saul's uncle saw him and the servant, and he asked them, “Where have you been?”“Looking for the donkeys,” Saul answered. “When we couldn't find them, we went to see Samuel.”
15. “And what did he tell you?” Saul's uncle asked.
16. “He told us that the animals had been found,” Saul answered — but he did not tell his uncle what Samuel had said about his becoming king.
17. Samuel called the people together for a religious gathering at Mizpah
18. and said to them, “The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I brought you out of Egypt and rescued you from the Egyptians and all the other peoples who were oppressing you.
19. I am your God, the one who rescues you from all your troubles and difficulties, but today you have rejected me and have asked me to give you a king. Very well, then, gather yourselves before the Lord by tribes and by clans.’ ”