<p class="bodytext">Samuel said to the people, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> is the one who chose Moses and Aaron and who brought your ancestors<n id="1" /> up from the land of Egypt.

&#8220;At this time tomorrow I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin. You must consecrate<n id="1" /> him as a leader over my people Israel. He will save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked with favor on my people. Their cry has reached me!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">So he took David<n id="1" /> down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot<n id="2" /> they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.