Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.
Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen ... the Lord hath set a king over you. In concluding his address to the assembled heads of the nation, he presents to them Saul, whom in Yahweh's name he had previously anointed to be king; but while stating that they had obtained the object of their ardent desire, he reminded them that 'the Lord had set a king over them' - i:e., that he was, in the theocratic government of the Hebrews, the representative and vicegerent of Yahweh.