¹⁶ “About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin. Anoint^(A) him ruler^(B) over my people Israel; he will deliver^(C) them from the hand of the Philistines.^(D) I have looked on my people, for their cry^(E) has reached me.”

² All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered^(A) around him, and he became their commander. About four hundred men were with him.

⁵ “Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard^(A) your prayer and seen your tears;^(B) I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the Lord.