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But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, although the LORD had closed her womb.
"Do not consider your maidservant a wicked woman, for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief I have spoken until now."
Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head, and kissed him and said: "Is it not because the LORD has anointed you commander over His inheritance?
Then Samuel said to the people, "It is the LORD who raised up Moses and Aaron, and who brought your fathers up from the land of Egypt.
Now it happened, as soon as he had finished presenting the burnt offering, that Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him.
So Samuel did what the LORD said, and went to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, "Do you come peaceably?"
"And blessed is your advice and blessed are you, because you have kept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand.
"For this child I prayed, and the LORD has granted me my petition which I asked of Him.
But he always returned to Ramah, for his home was there. There he judged Israel, and there he built an altar to the LORD.
And Samuel said to the cook, "Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, 'Set it apart.' "
So it was, when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, that God gave him another heart; and all those signs came to pass that day.
So Saul said to his uncle, "He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found." But about the matter of the kingdom, he did not tell him what Samuel had said.
Then the people said to Samuel, "Who is he who said, 'Shall Saul reign over us?' Bring the men, that we may put them to death."
Then Samuel said to the people, "Do not fear. You have done all this wickedness; yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.
But Samuel said, "What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?"
Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house at Gibeah of Saul.
So when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in the name of David, and waited.
Then Nabal answered David's servants, and said, "Who is David, and who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who break away each one from his master.
"May God do so, and more also, to the enemies of David, if I leave one male of all who belong to him by morning light."