1 Samuel 10:11-21

11 It came about, when all who knew him previously#st8032 saw that he prophesied now with the prophets, that the people said to one another, "What has happened to the son of Kish? ¹Is Saul also among the prophets?"

12 A man there * said, "Now, who is their father?" Therefore * it became a proverb: "²Is Saul also among the prophets?"

13 When he had finished prophesying, he came to the high place.

14 Now ³Saul's uncle said to him and his servant, "Where did you go?" And he said, "⁴To look for the donkeys. When we saw that they could not be found, we went to Samuel."

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

16 So Saul said to his uncle, "⁵He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found." But he did not tell him about the matter of the kingdom which Samuel had mentioned.

Saul Publicly Chosen King

17 Thereafter Samuel called the ⁶people together to the LORD at Mizpah;

18 and he said to the sons of Israel, "⁷Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'I brought Israel up from Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the power of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.'

19 "But you ⁸have today rejected your God, who delivers you from all your calamities and your distresses; yet you have said, 'No, but set a king over us!' Now therefore, ⁹present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your clans."

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

21 Then he brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its families, and the Matrite family was taken. And Saul the son of Kish was taken; but when they looked for him, he could not be found.

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1 Samuel 10:11-21 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 9

1. 1 Samuel 19:24; Amos 7:14, 15; Matthew 13:54-57; John 7:15
2. 1 Samuel 19:23, 24
3. 1 Samuel 14:50
4. 1 Samuel 9:3-6
5. 1 Samuel 9:20
6. Judges 20:1; 1 Samuel 7:5
7. Judges 6:8, 9
8. 1 Samuel 8:6, 7; 1 Samuel 12:12
9. Joshua 7:14-18; Joshua 24:1; Proverbs 16:33

Footnotes 2

[a]. Lit "hand"
[b]. So with several mss and versions; M.T. "said to Him"