Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel, etc.--By selecting a king from this least and nearly extinct tribe (Judges 20:46-48), divine wisdom designed to remove all grounds of jealousy among the other tribes.
on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?--This was a covert and indirect premonition of the royal dignity that awaited him; and, though Saul's answer shows that he fully understood it, he affected to doubt that the prophet was in earnest.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
1 Samuel 9:15-16
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