1 Samuel 10:14-24

14 ¹Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, "Where did you go?" And he said, ²"To seek the donkeys. And when we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel."

15 And Saul's uncle said, "Please tell me what Samuel said to you."

16 And Saul said to his uncle, ³"He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found." But about the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him anything.

Saul Proclaimed King

17 Now Samuel called the people together ⁴to the LORD ⁵at Mizpah.

18 And he said to the people of Israel, ⁶"Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.'

19 ⁷But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, 'Set a king over us.' Now therefore ⁸present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your thousands."

20 Then Samuel ⁹brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot.

21 He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its clans, and the clan of the Matrites was taken by lot;^[a] and Saul the son of Kish was taken by lot. But when they sought him, he could not be found.

22 ¹⁰So they inquired again of the LORD, "Is there a man still to come?" and the LORD said, "Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage."

23 Then they ran and took him from there. And when he stood among the people, ¹¹he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.

24 And Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see him ¹²whom the LORD has chosen? There is none like him among all the people." And all the people shouted, ¹³"Long live the king!"

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1 Samuel 10:14-24 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 10

In this chapter we read of Saul's being anointed king by Samuel, 1Sa 10:1, and of certain signs given as confirming the same, which should come to pass, and did, before Saul got to his father's house, 1Sa 10:2-13, of his arrival at his father's house, and of what passed between him and his uncle there, 1Sa 10:14-16, of Samuel's calling all Israel together at Mizpeh, and of the election of Saul by lot to be king, and of his being declared such, 1Sa 10:17-25, and of his return to his city, being respected by some, and despised by others, 1Sa 10:26,27.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 13

1. 1 Samuel 14:50
2. See 1 Samuel 9:4-6
3. 1 Samuel 9:20
4. [1 Samuel 11:15]
5. 1 Samuel 7:5, 6
6. Judges 6:8, 9; [1 Samuel 12:8]
7. 1 Samuel 8:7, 19; 1 Samuel 12:12
8. Joshua 24:1
9. Josh. 7:14, 16, 17
10. See 1 Samuel 22:10
11. 1 Samuel 9:2
12. 2 Samuel 21:6
13. 2 Samuel 16:16; 1 Kings 1:25, 39; 2 Kings 11:12; 2 Chronicles 23:11

Footnotes 1

[a]. Septuagint adds finally he brought the family of the Matrites near, man by man

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