¹⁶ “About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and ^(A)you shall anoint him to be ruler over My people Israel; and he will save My people from the hand of the Philistines. For ^(B)I have regarded My people because their cry has come to Me.”

²⁸ So Samuel said to him, “^(A)Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor, who is better than you.