13. After Saul stopped prophesying, he went to the high place.
14. Now Saul’s uncle asked him and his servant, ‘Where have you been?’‘Looking for the donkeys,’ he said. ‘But when we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel.’
15. Saul’s uncle said, ‘Tell me what Samuel said to you.’
16. Saul replied, ‘He assured us that the donkeys had been found.’ But he did not tell his uncle what Samuel had said about the kingship.
17. Samuel summoned the people of Israel to the Lord at Mizpah
18. and said to them, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: “I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the power of Egypt and all the kingdoms that oppressed you.”