In Context

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 Yahweh to Mizpah;

18 and he said to the children of Israel, |Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'I brought up Israel 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:'

19 but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, 'No, but set a king over us.' Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.|

1 Samuel 10:17 in Other Translations