¹⁶ “About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and ^(A)you shall anoint him as ruler over My people Israel; and he will save My people from the hand of the Philistines. For ^(B)I have considered My people, because their outcry has come to Me.” ¹⁷ When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord ^[a]said to him, “^(C)Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! This one shall rule over My people.”

³ Then you will go on further from there, and you will come as far as the ^[a](A)oak of Tabor, and there three men going up ^(B)to God at Bethel will meet you: one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a jug of wine. ⁴ And they will ^[b]greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you will accept from their hand. ⁵ Afterward you will come to ^[c](C)the hill of God where the Philistine garrison is; and it shall be as soon as you have come there to the city, that you will meet ^(D)a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and a lyre in front of them, and ^(E)they will be prophesying. ⁶ Then ^(F)the Spirit of the Lord will rush upon you, and ^(G)you will prophesy with them and be changed into a different man. ⁷ And it shall be when these signs come to you, ^(H)do for yourself what ^[d]the occasion requires, because ^(I)God is with you.

²⁵ And Micaiah said, “Behold, you are going to see how on that day when you ^(A)go from one inner room to ^[a]another trying to hide yourself.”

²⁵ Yet You have said to me, Lord ^[a]God, “Buy for yourself the field with money and call in witnesses”—although the city has been handed over to the Chaldeans.’”