And 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?" So all the people shouted and said, "Long live the king!"

So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal. There they made sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

and said to him, "Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations."

"But as for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, do not be anxious about them, for they have been found. And on whom [is] all the desire of Israel? [Is it] not on you and on all your father's house?"

So they ate and were well filled, For He gave them their own desire.

The wrath of God came against them, And slew the stoutest of them, And struck down the choice [men] of Israel.

I gave you a king in My anger, And took [him] away in My wrath.

"And afterward they asked for a king; so God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.