Caused ... to come near ... was taken - The Hebrew phrases are exactly the same as in Joshua 7:16-17, where the King James Version renders t…

The tribe of Benjamin was taken. —How the “lots” were taken is not said; usually it was by throwing tablets ([Reference Joshua 18:…

And when Samuel had caused all the tribes to come near
The heads and representatives of them, to the place where the…

Samuel tells the people, You have this day rejected your God. Saul now had so little fondne for that power—which, soon after he po e ed it…