16 “Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince¹ over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For ^tI have seen² my people, because their cry has come to me.”

9 And all the people were arguing throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, ^j“The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies and saved us from the hand of the Philistines, and now he has ^kfled out of the land from Absalom.