13. When he had finished prophesying, he came to the high place.
14. Saul’s uncle said to him and to his servant, “Where did you go?”He said, “To seek the donkeys. When we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel.”
15. Saul’s uncle said, “Please tell me what Samuel said to you.”
16. Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly that the donkeys were found.” But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel spoke, he didn’t tell him.
17. Samuel called the people together to the Lord to Mizpah;
18. and he said to the children of Israel, “the Lord, the God of Israel, says ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’