8. Then you will go down before me to Gilgal. Look, I am coming down to you to offer burnt offerings and to make fellowship offerings. You must wait seven days until I come to you. Then I will let you know what you should do.”
9. Just as he turned his shoulder to depart from Samuel, God changed his heart. And all these signs were fulfilled on that day.
10. When they went from there to Gibeah, a procession of prophets met him, and the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied among them.
11. And when all who knew him formerly saw that he prophesied with prophets, the people said to one another, “What is this that has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”
12. And a man from there responded and said, “And who is their father?” Therefore it became a proverb: “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
13. When he finished prophesying, he went to the high place.
14. Then Saul’s uncle said to him and to his servant, “Where did you go?” And he said, “To search for the female donkeys; and when we saw none, we went to Samuel.”
15. So Saul’s uncle said to him, “Please tell me, what did Samuel say to you?”
16. Then Saul said to his uncle, “He told us for certain that the female donkeys had been found.” But he did not tell him about the matter of the kingship of which Samuel had spoken.
17. Then Samuel summoned the people to Yahweh at Mizpah,