1 Samuel
Chapters 10:23-27
Revised Version 1885
23And they ran and fetched him thence; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
24And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.
25Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
26And Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and there went with him the host, whose hearts God had touched.
27But certain sons of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.