World English Bible
1 Samuel 10:17
“Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 10
Saul's uncle said, "Please tell me what Samuel said to you.
Saul said to his uncle, "He told us plainly that the donkeys were found." But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel spoke, he didn't tell him.
Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;
and he said to the children of Israel, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you:
but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, '[No], but set a king over us.' Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.
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The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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