¹ Samuel said to all Israel, Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.

²⁴ Samuel said to all the people, "You see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?" All the people shouted, and said, [Long] live the king.

¹⁴ Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.

¹⁵ All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before Yahweh in Gilgal; and there they offered sacrifices of peace-offerings before Yahweh; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

⁵ and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons don't walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

⁶ But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. Samuel prayed to Yahweh.

⁷ Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

⁸ According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.

¹⁹ But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No: but we will have a king over us,

²⁰ that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

²¹ Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.

²² Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to their voice, and make them a king. Samuel said to the men of Israel, Go you every man to his city.

¹ Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, Isn't it that Yahweh has anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?