1 Samuel 10:14

14 Then Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, "Where did you go?" And he said, "To search [for] the female donkeys; and when we saw none, we went to Samuel."

1 Samuel 10:14 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 10:14

And Saul's uncle said unto him, and to his servant, whither
went ye?
&c.] Since they had been absent so long a time. This was his father's brother, as the Targum, and so Aquila; whose name was Ner, the father of Abner, ( 1 Samuel 14:50 1 Samuel 14:51 ) who met with him at the high place, or found him in the city, in his father's house it may be. Josephus ^F7 says, Saul went into the house of his kinsman Abner, whom he loved above all his relations, and that it was he that discoursed with Saul, and asked him, the questions before and after related:

and he said, to seek the asses:
he first observes the end of their going, the business they went upon, in which not succeeding, then he answers more directly to the question:

and when we saw that [they were] nowhere;
could not see them, nor find them any where, or hear of them where they went:

we came to Samuel;
at Ramah, to inquire of him, if he could direct us which way to go, and what methods to take, to find the asses.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 6. c. 4.) sect. 3.

1 Samuel 10:14 In-Context

12 And a man from there responded and said, "And who [is] their father?" Therefore it became a proverb: "[Is] Saul also among the prophets?"

13 When he finished prophesying, he went to the high place.

14 Then Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, "Where did you go?" And he said, "To search [for] the female donkeys; and when we saw none, we went to Samuel."

15 So Saul's uncle said to him, "Please tell me, what did Samuel say to you?"

16 Then Saul said to his uncle, "He told us for certain that the female donkeys had been found." But he did not tell him about the matter of the kingship [of] which Samuel had spoken.