1. Then Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have listened to your voice in all you said to me, and have set a king over you.
2. Now here is the king who will go before you, while I am old and gray. Also here are my sons with you. I have gone before you from my youth to this day.
3. Here I am. Witness against me before Adonai and before His anointed. Whose ox have I taken or whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded or whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe to look the other way? I will restore it to you.”
4. They replied, “You haven’t defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from anyone’s hand.”
5. Then he said to them, “Adonai is then a witness against you, and His anointed is a witness this day that you have not found anything in my hand.” “He is a witness,” they replied.