Then Samuel took the vial of oil and poured it on his head, then kissed him and said, “Hasn’t the LORD anointed you to be prince over his inheritance? 1Sa 16:13Psa 78:711Sa 9:16Psa 2:12Act 13:211Sa 26:112Ki 9:3-6Deu 32:9 When you have departed from me today, then you will find two men by Rachel’s tomb, on the border of Benjamin at Zelzah. They will tell you, ‘The donkeys which you went to look for have been found; and behold, your father has stopped caring about the donkeys and is anxious for you, saying, “What shall I do for my son?”’ 1Sa 9:3-5Gen 35:19-201Sa 10:16Jos 18:28Jer 31:15
“Then you will go on forward from there, and you will come to the oak of Tabor. Three men will meet you there going up to God to Bethel: one carrying three young goats, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a container of wine. Gen 28:22Gen 35:1Gen 35:3Gen 28:19Gen 35:6-8Jdg 4:12Jdg 4:6Jdg 8:18 They will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall receive from their hand. Jdg 18:15
“After that you will come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is; and it will happen, when you have come there to the city, that you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a lute, a tambourine, a pipe, and a harp before them; and they will be prophesying. 2Ki 3:151Sa 13:31Sa 19:201Ch 25:1-61Sa 10:102Ki 2:152Ki 2:32Ki 2:5 Then the LORD’s Spirit will come mightily on you, then you will prophesy with them and will be turned into another man. 1Sa 10:101Sa 19:23-24Num 11:251Sa 16:13Jdg 14:6Jdg 3:10Mat 7:22 Let it be, when these signs have come to you, that you do what is appropriate for the occasion; for God is with you. Jdg 6:12Jos 1:5Exo 4:8Heb 13:5Isa 7:14Deu 20:1Ecc 9:10Gen 21:20
“Go down ahead of me to Gilgal; and behold, I will come down to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings. Wait seven days, until I come to you and show you what you are to do.” 1Sa 11:14-151Sa 13:41Sa 13:8-151Sa 15:33 It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart; and all those signs happened that day. Jdg 7:11Isa 38:7-81Sa 10:2-6Jdg 6:21Jdg 6:36-40Mrk 14:16 When they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came mightily on him, and he prophesied among them. 1Sa 10:5-61Sa 19:20-24 When all who knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said to one another, “What is this that has come to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?” 1Sa 19:24Jhn 7:15Mat 13:54-55Act 2:7-8Act 3:10Act 4:13Act 9:21Jhn 9:8-9
One from the same place answered, “Who is their father?” Therefore it became a proverb, “Is Saul also among the prophets?” Isa 54:13Jhn 6:45Jas 1:17Jhn 7:16 When he had finished prophesying, he came to the high place.
Saul’s uncle said to him and to his servant, “Where did you go?” 1Sa 14:501Sa 9:3-102Ki 5:25
He said, “To seek the donkeys. When we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel.”
Saul’s uncle said, “Please tell me what Samuel said to you.”
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. Pro 29:111Sa 9:201Sa 9:27Jdg 14:6Exo 4:18
Samuel called the people together to the LORD to Mizpah; Jdg 20:11Sa 7:5-6 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.’ Jdg 6:8-9Jdg 2:1Neh 9:27-28Neh 9:9-12 But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, ‘No! Set a king over us!’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your thousands.” 1Sa 12:121Sa 8:19Jos 24:11Sa 12:17-191Sa 8:6-9Jos 7:14-26Mic 5:2Num 17:2
So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was chosen. 1Sa 14:41Act 1:24-26Jos 7:16-18 He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families and the family of the Matrites was chosen. Then Saul the son of Kish was chosen; but when they looked for him, he could not be found. Therefore they asked of the LORD further, “Is there yet a man to come here?” Jdg 20:18Num 27:211Sa 15:171Sa 23:11-121Sa 23:2-41Sa 9:21Jdg 1:1Jdg 20:23
The LORD answered, “Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage.”
They ran and got him there. When he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward. 1Sa 9:21Sa 16:71Sa 17:4 Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom the LORD has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?” 1Ki 1:251Ki 1:392Sa 21:6Deu 17:152Ki 11:121Ki 1:211Ki 1:34Mat 21:9
All the people shouted and said, “Long live the king!”
Then Samuel told the people the regulations of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book and laid it up before the LORD. Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house. 1Sa 8:11-18Deu 17:14-201Pe 2:13-141Ti 2:2Ezk 45:9-10Ezk 46:16-18Rom 13:1-7Tit 3:1 Saul also went to his house in Gibeah; and the army went with him, whose hearts God had touched. 1Sa 11:41Sa 15:34Act 7:10Jos 18:282Sa 21:6Act 13:48Jdg 19:12-16Jdg 20:14 But certain worthless fellows said, “How could this man save us?” They despised him, and brought him no tribute. But he held his peace. Deu 13:131Ki 10:252Ch 17:51Ki 4:211Sa 2:122Ch 13:7Act 7:35Mat 27:12-14