Shmuel Alef 10:16-18

Orthodox Jewish Bible

¹⁶ And Sha’ul said unto his dod, He told us plainly that the donkeys were found. But of the matter of the melukhah (kingship), whereof Shmuel spoke, he told him not.

¹⁷ And Shmuel called HaAm together unto Hashem at Mitzpah;

¹⁸ And said unto the Bnei Yisroel, Thus saith Hashem Elohei Yisroel, I brought up Yisroel out of Mitzrayim, and delivered you out of the yad Mitzrayim, and out of the yad kol HaMamlachot, and of them that oppressed you;