¹⁴ “When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you ^(A)possess it and live in it, and you say, ‘^(B)I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,’ ¹⁵ you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses, one ^(C)from among your ^[a]countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your ^[b]countryman.

¹⁶ “About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and ^(A)you shall anoint him to be prince over My people Israel; and he will deliver My people from the hand of the Philistines. For ^(B)I have regarded My people, because their cry has come to Me.”