Now look! Here is the king you have chosen – the one that you asked for! Look, the Lord has given you a king!

Samuel said to the cook, “Give me the portion of meat that I gave to you – the one I asked you to keep with you.”

Now Saul was sitting under a pomegranate tree in Migron, on the outskirts of Gibeah. The army that was with him numbered about six hundred men.

Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed Israel along the way when Israel came up from Egypt.

Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you should do. You will anoint for me the one I point out to you.”

Afterward David’s conscience bothered him because he had cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.

You have explained today how you have treated me well. The Lord delivered me into your hand, but you did not kill me.

Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t even know where they came from!”

Then David and the men who were with him wept loudly until they could weep no more.

When Saul saw how very successful he was, he was afraid of him.

This failure on your part isn’t good! As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”

But all the evil and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Since they didn’t go with us, we won’t give them any of the loot we retrieved! They may take only their wives and children. Let them lead them away and be gone!”

I prayed for this boy, and the Lord has given me the request that I asked of him.

This ought not to be, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the Lord’s people is not good.

and the lamp of God had not yet been extinguished. Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord as well; the ark of God was also there.

The people who did not die were struck with sores; the city’s cry for help went all the way up to heaven.

Even Saul went to his home in Gibeah. With him went some brave men whose hearts God had touched.

“So now, take your positions and watch this great thing that the Lord is about to do in your sight.

Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is next to Egypt.

Samuel replied, “If that is the case, then what is this sound of sheep in my ears and the sound of cattle that I hear?”