19 (A)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 (B)present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.”

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25 Then Samuel told the people (A)the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the Lord. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home.

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15 So all the people went to (A)Gilgal, and there they made Saul king (B)before the Lord in Gilgal. There (C)they sacrificed peace offerings before the Lord, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

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Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the Lord concerning all the righteous deeds of the Lord that he performed for you and for your fathers.

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Israel's War with the Tribe of Benjamin

20 Then (A)all the people of Israel came out, (B)from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the Lord at (C)Mizpah.

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Saul Proclaimed King

17 Now Samuel called the people together (A)to the Lord (B)at Mizpah.

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