12. One of the locals then asked, "And who is their leader?" So it became a proverb: "Is Saul also one of the prophets?"
13. When the prophetic frenzy was over, Saul went home.
14. Saul’s uncle said to him and to his young servant, "Where did you go?""To look for the donkeys," Saul replied, "but when we couldn’t find anything, we went to Samuel."
15. "Please tell me what Samuel told you," Saul’s uncle said.
16. "He reassured us that the donkeys had been found," Saul answered. But Saul didn’t tell his uncle what Samuel had said about the kingship.
17. Samuel summoned the people to the Lord at Mizpah.
18. Then he told the Israelites: "This is what the Lord God of Israel says: I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the Egyptians’ power and from the power of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.
19. But today you’ve rejected your God who saved you from all your troubles and difficulties by saying, ‘No! Appoint a king over us!’ So now assemble yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and clans."