24 And Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him (A)whom the Lord has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?”

So all the people shouted and said, (B)“Long[a] live the king!”

25 Then Samuel explained to the people (C)the behavior of royalty, and wrote it in a book and laid it up before the Lord. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house. 26 And Saul also went home (D)to Gibeah; and valiant men went with him, whose hearts God had touched.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 10:24 Lit. May the king live

Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—
In the volume of the book it is written of Me—
To do Your will, O God.’ ”

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16 (A)A man’s gift makes room for him,
And brings him before great men.

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11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

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