Samuel Anderses 11-14 Verse 14

may seems like an impediment, the author speed up the tempo: “The girls use such terms as ‘hurry now,’ ‘just today,’ ‘today,’ ‘now,’ and ‘at this right moment your can find him.’” Within this section, Samuel and his servant encounter women from the nearby city. They inquire as to where the seer could be found. The women inform them that they will find the seer. Verse 14 is the execution of the proposal the women make, Saul and his servant head up to the city. Verse 15 functions as the outcome of verses 11–14.

Verses 15–17 provide parenthetical information regarding the story. In this section, the author revealed an event that happed prior to the current situation in the story:

Finally, the narrator reveals the information that will make sense of the events. . . . Yahweh returns to the stage giving his first communication to Samuel since he told the latter to make a king. . . . Yahweh proceeds to explain what he has been doing, how he has begun his response, and what that response actually entails. . . . Yahweh is able to predict the future course of Saul’s journey because he has directed it all along.

God told Saul to anoint a man as king. The author used positive evaluations in his description of the man. Interestingly, the semantic role of reason is used in verse 16, “because their cry has
In verse 17, Samuel the prophet assembled all the people of Israel before the Lord. In verses 18–19, God reminded the people two events. First he reminded them of how he had delivered them from Egypt, more specifically, oppression. Second, he reminded them of their request for a king, which was a rejection of God himself. This section ended as God commanded the people to present themselves before him. The act of presenting themselves before God was the method God used to select the king from among them—casting of lots. Thus, the occasion that began this section was God’s command of the people to come before