1 Samuel 9:15-17

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁵ Now the day before Saul came, the Lord had revealed to Samuel: ¹⁶ ‘Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be ruler over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines; for I have seen the suffering of^[a] my people, because their outcry has come to me.’ ¹⁷ When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord told him, ‘Here is the man of whom I spoke to you. He it is who shall rule over my people.’