1 Samuel 10:19

Ye have this day rejected your God; you this day declare that you persist in your former act of rejecting God's government: See Poole on "1 Samuel 8:7". Who himself saved you; who by his own special providence took care to raise up judges and saviours for you, and to deliver you at all times, when you needed his help, and did not by your sins obstruct it. Ye have said unto him, i.e. unto me his prophet and ambassador; and consequently unto the Lord, whom I represented, and in whose name I spake and acted. By your tribes, and by your thousands; for each tribe was divided into thousands, Numbers 10:36 Deuteronomy 33:17 Joshua 22:14,21 Mic 5:2, as in England counties are into hundreds.