¹⁵ Now the day before Saul came, ^(A)the Lord had ^(B)revealed to Samuel:

²¹ Then ^(A)they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul ^(B)the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

The Lord Rejects Saul

15 And Samuel said to Saul, ^(A)“The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the Lord.

²⁷ For you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.

¹³ And he sent ^(A)two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him, ¹⁴ and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ^(B)‘The Teacher says, Where is ^(C)my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ ¹⁵ And he will show you ^(D)a large upper room furnished and ready; there prepare for us.” ¹⁶ And the disciples set out and went to the city and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

² And he said to him, “Far from it! You shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me. And why should my father hide this from me? It is not so.”

²³ For this very night ^(A)there ^(B)stood before me ^(C)an angel of the God ^(D)to whom I belong and ^(E)whom I worship,