⁵Then Samuel told Saul, “You can start going home now. Soon you will arrive at the hill near the town called Gibeah. There is an army camp for soldiers from Philistia at that place. People get together on the top of that hill to burn meat to give it to God. When you arrive, you will see a group of men who tell God’s message, coming down that hill. And you will see other people in front of them, with all kinds of musical instruments. Those messengers and the musical people, they will all have special power from God, and they will tell his message.

⁶And God’s spirit will also come to you, and he will give you that power too. Then you will be a different person, and you will tell his word whenever the men that tell God’s message meet together.

⁷And after you see it happen like this, you will know that God will stay close to you. He will help you to do anything you think is right.”

⁹Saul turned around and started to leave that place, then God suddenly changed him. That day he told people God’s word, just like Samuel said.

¹⁷After that, Samuel told the Israel mob to come together at the place called Mizpah. So they met together at that place.

²⁴Samuel told Saul to stand up in front of them. And he said to everybody, “Look at this man. God picked him to be the big boss. There’s nobody else like him.”

They all shouted happily, “Yes. He will be our big boss for ever.”