6 And Samuel said to the people, “The Lord is witness,¹ who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. 7 Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the Lord concerning all the righteous deeds of the Lord that he performed for you and for your fathers. 8 ^cWhen Jacob went into Egypt, and ^dthe Egyptians oppressed them,² then ^eyour fathers cried out to the Lord and ^fthe Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place. 9 But they forgot the Lord their God. And he sold them ^ginto the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor,³ and ^hinto the hand of the Philistines, and ⁱinto the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them. 10 And ^jthey cried out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. But now ^kdeliver us out of the hand of our enemies, that we may serve you.’ 11 And the Lord sent ^lJerubbaal and ^mBarak⁴ and ⁿJephthah and ^oSamuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived ^pin safety. 12 And ^qwhen you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, ^ryou ^ssaid to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ when ^tthe Lord your God was your king. 13 And now behold the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked; behold, the Lord has set a king over you. 14 If you will fear the Lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God, it will be well.