24 Then Samuel said to all the people: “Have YOU seen the one whom Jehovah has chosen,+ that there is none like him among all the people?” And all the people began to shout and say: “Let the king live!”+

17 And Samuel went on to say: “Was it not when you were little in your own eyes+ that you were head of the tribes of Israel, and Jehovah proceeded to anoint+ you as king over Israel?

21 But from then on they demanded a king,+ and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin,+ for forty years.