1Sa 10:19-21 | ESV | STEP | But today you have rejected your God , who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses , and you have said to him, Set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands .

1 Samuel 10:19-21

19 ^aBut today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, ‘Set a king over us.’ Now therefore ^bpresent yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.”

20 Then Samuel ^cbrought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot. 21 He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its clans, and the clan of the Matrites was taken by lot; ^{▼▼Septuagint adds finally he brought the family of the Matrites near, man by man} and Saul the son of Kish was taken by lot. But when they sought him, he could not be found.