Saul’s Public Election

As we have seen, I Samuel 10:8-13:8 forms a passage that presents certain difficulties rising from Samuel's command to Saul. This command having been dealt with and these difficulties having been explained and thereby removed, let us take up the thread of the narrative, where we broke off. Saul had been anointed and charged by Samuel in secret. In addition, the unbelieving king had been provided with a mass of indisputable evidence that Samuel truly was God's prophet and that therefore in him,...