And after the death of Hadad, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

And after the death of Samlah, Shaul of Rehoboth upon Euphrates reigned in his place.

and Samuel the son of him. And the sons of Samuel: the eldest Joel and then Abijah.

These are they that waited with their children of the sons of Kohath: Heman a singer, which was the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

All these were chosen fellows to keep the thresholds, two hundred and twelve, and were numbered in their villages. And them did David and Samuel the seer institute in their fidelity.

And when all the elders of Israel were come to the king to Hebron, David made a covenant with them there before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Samuel.

These were of the sons of Gad, and were captains over the men of war, the small over a hundred, and the great over a thousand.

When you were a small company in number, even but a few, and thereto strangers therein.

And they cast Lots indifferently how they should wait: the small as well as the great, the scholar as well as the schoolmaster.

And they cast lots: the small as well as the great in the households of their fathers, from gate to gate.

and over all that Samuel the seer and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah had dedicated. All that was dedicated, was under the hand of Shelomoth and of his brethren.

The acts of David the king, both first and last, are written in the books of Samuel the seer and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer of visions,