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1 Samuel 11:12
“The people said to Samuel, "Who is he who said, 'Shall Saul reign over us?' Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 11
Therefore the men of Jabesh said, "Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you.
It was so on the next day, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it happened, that those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
The people said to Samuel, "Who is he who said, 'Shall Saul reign over us?' Bring those men, that we may put them to death!
Saul said, "There shall not a man be put to death this day; for today Yahweh has worked deliverance in Israel.
Then Samuel said to the people, "Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.
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The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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