23 And it came about during those many days that the king of Egypt finally died,+ but the sons of Israel continued to sigh because of the slavery* and to cry out in complaint,+ and their cry for help kept going up to the [true] God because of the slavery.+
16 “Tomorrow about this time I shall send to you a man from the land of Benjamin,+ and you must anoint+ him as leader over my people Israel; and he must save my people from the hand of the Phi·lisʹtines,+ because I have seen [the affliction of] my people,* for their outcry has come to me.”+