12 A man there said, "Now, who is their father?" Therefore it became a proverb: "Is Saul also among the prophets?"
13 When he had finished prophesying, he came to the high place.
14 Now Saul's uncle said to him and his servant, "Where did you go?" And he said, "To look for the donkeys. When we saw that they could not be found, we went to Samuel."
15 Saul's uncle said, "Please tell me what Samuel said to you."
16 So Saul said to his uncle, "He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found." But he did not tell him about the matter of the kingdom which Samuel had mentioned.
17 Thereafter Samuel called the people together to the Lord at Mizpah;
18 and he said to the sons of Israel, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'I brought Israel up from Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the power of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.'