So they obeyed the king and went, and the star which they had seen rise led them on until it reached the place where the child was, and stopped above it.

And she hurried back at once to the king and asked him for it, saying, "I want you right away to give me John the Baptist's head on a platter."

Then they demanded a king and for forty years God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin.