1Sa 9:16-17 | 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 9:16-17

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.” 17 When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord told him, ^e“Here is the man of whom I spoke to you! He it is who shall restrain my people.”