1Sa 9:16, 10:1, 15:17-18 | ESV | STEP | Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin , and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel . He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines . For I have seen my people , because their cry has come to me.

1 Samuel 9:16

16 “Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, ^aand you shall anoint him to be prince ^{▼▼Or leader} over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. ^cFor I have seen ^{▼▼Septuagint adds the affliction of} my people, because their cry has come to me.”

1 Samuel 10:1

Saul Anointed King

1 ^eThen Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head ^fand kissed him and said, “Has not the Lord anointed you to be prince ^{▼▼Or leader} over ^hhis people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the Lord and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you to be prince ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew lacks over his people Israel? And you shall. . . . to be prince} over his heritage.

1 Samuel 15:17-18

17 And Samuel said, ^j“Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel. 18 And the Lord sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’