Samuel listened to all the people’s words and then repeated them to the Lord.
So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead. The people made him their leader and commander, and Jephthah repeated all his terms in the presence of the Lord at Mizpah.
‘Listen to them,’ the Lord told Samuel. ‘Appoint a king for them.’ Then Samuel told the men of Israel, ‘Each of you, go back to your city.’
Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers’ hands, read it, then went up to the Lord’s temple, and spread it out before the Lord.