Samuel gathers Israel at Mizpah

17Then Samuel called the people together to Yahweh at Mizpah.

18And he said to the sons of Israel, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: I brought Israel up from Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.”

19But today you have rejected your God, who himself saves you from all your calamities and distresses, and you have said to him, ‘No, but set a king over us.’ So now present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes and by your thousands.