So they gathered together at Mizpah, drew water, and poured [it] out before the LORD. And they fasted that day, and said there, "We have sinned against the LORD." And Samuel judged the children of Israel at Mizpah.

Now Samuel said to all Israel: "Indeed I have heeded your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.

Then Samuel died; and the Israelites gathered together and lamented for him, and buried him at his home in Ramah. And David arose and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.

Nevertheless, the LORD raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them.

The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the LORD delivered Cushan-Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed over Cushan-Rishathaim.

So the land had rest for forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

"After that He gave [them] judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

"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.