The King

¹⁴ When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession^(A) of it and settled in it,^(B) and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”^(C)

¹⁵ be sure to appoint^(A) over you a king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites.^(B) Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite.

²¹ Then the people asked for a king,^(A) and he gave them Saul^(B) son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin,^(C) who ruled forty years.