Then the people said to Samuel, “Who was it who said, ‘Should Saul reign over us?’ Bring the men, so we may put them to death.”
For the king trusts in Adonai, and in the lovingkindness of Elyon he will not be shaken.
But those hostile to me, who didn’t want me to reign over them, bring them here and execute them before me.’”
But certain worthless men said, “How can this one save us?” So they despised him and brought him no present. But he kept silent.