9. When Saul turned to leave Samuel, God gave Saul a new nature. And everything Samuel had told him happened that day.
10. When Saul and his servant arrived at Gibeah, a group of prophets met him. Suddenly the Spirit of God took control of him, and he joined in their ecstatic dancing and shouting.
11. People who had known him before saw him doing this and asked one another, “What has happened to the son of Kish? Has Saul become a prophet?”
12. A man who lived there asked, “How about these other prophets — who do you think their fathers are?” This is how the saying originated, “Has even Saul become a prophet?”
13. When Saul finished his ecstatic dancing and shouting, he went to the altar on the hill.
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.’ ”
20. Then Samuel made each tribe come forward, and the Lord picked the tribe of Benjamin.
21. Then Samuel made the families of the tribe of Benjamin come forward, and the family of Matri was picked out. Then the men of the family of Matri came forward, and Saul son of Kish was picked out. They looked for him, but when they could not find him,