The Koine Bible

And Samuel took the flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said to him, Has not the Lord anointed you as ruler over his people, over Israel? And you shall rule among the people of the Lord, and you shall save him from the hand of his enemies all around. And this is to you the sign that the Lord has anointed you over his inheritance as ruler.

When you go away today from me, you will find two men by the tombs of Rachel in the boundary of Benjamin, leaping greatly, and they will say to you, The donkeys that you went to seek have been found, and behold, your father has shaken off the matter of the donkeys and has made himself anxious on your account, saying, What shall I do about my son?

And you shall go on from there and farther you shall come as far as the oak of Tabor, and you shall find there three men going up to God at Bethel, one carrying three kids, and one carrying three loaves of bread, and one carrying a skin of wine

And they will ask you about peace, and they will give you two loaves of bread, and you shall receive from their hand.

And after these things you shall enter into the hill of God, where is there the garrison of the Philistines, there Nasib the Philistine; and it shall be when you enter there into the city, that you shall meet a chorus of prophets coming down from the Bamah, and before them a harp and tambourine and flute and lyre, and they themselves prophesying.

And the Spirit of the Lord will leap upon you, and you will prophesy with them, and you will be turned into another man

And it shall be when these signs come upon you, do all whatever your hand may find, because God is with you.

And you shall go down before Gilgal, and behold, I am coming down to you to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings; seven days you shall wait until my coming to you, and I will make known to you what you shall do.

And it happened that, as he turned his shoulder to go away from Samuel, God turned for him another heart, and all the signs came on that day.

And he comes from there to the hill, and behold, a choir of prophets was coming toward him, and the Spirit of God leaped upon him, and he prophesied among them

And it came to pass that all who knew him yesterday and the third day saw, and behold, he was among the prophets; and the people said each to his neighbor, What is this that has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?

And one of them answered and said, And who is his father? Therefore it became into a proverb: Is Saul also among the prophets?

And he finished prophesying and comes to the hill.

And his relative said to him and to his servant, Where did you go? And they said, To seek the donkeys, and we saw that they were not, and we went in to Samuel.

And the household servant said to Saul, Tell me now, please, what Samuel said to you.

And Saul said to his own attendant, He did tell me, telling me, that the donkeys had been found; but he did not tell him the matter of the kingdom.

And Samuel gave orders to all the people before the Lord at Mizpah.

And he said to the sons of Israel, Thus says the Lord the God of Israel, saying, I brought up the sons of Israel out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt and from all the kingdoms that oppressed you.

And you today have despised God, who himself is your savior from all your evils and your afflictions, and you said, No, but rather, you shall set a king over us; and now stand before the Lord by your tribes and by your clans

And Samuel brought near all the tribes of Israel, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot.

And he brought forward the tribe of Benjamin by clans, and the tribe of Matri was taken by lot, and they brought forward the tribe of Matri by men, and Saul son of Kish was taken by lot, and they sought him and he was not found

And Samuel inquired yet of the Lord whether the man comes here, and the Lord said, Behold, he is hidden among the baggage.

And he ran and took him from there and set him in the midst of the people, and he was lifted up above all the people, above the shoulder and upward.

And Samuel said to all the people, If you have seen whom the Lord has chosen for himself, because there is none like him among all of you. And all the people knew and said, Let the king live.

And Samuel said to the people the ordinance of the king, and he wrote it in a book and set it before the Lord, and Samuel sent away all the people, and each went to his place.

And Saul went away to his house in Gabaa, and the sons of valour went, whose hearts the Lord had touched, with Saul

And sons of pestilence said, What will this one save us? And they dishonored him and did not bring him gifts