Let us go to Gilgal - that is, to Gilgal by Jericho, where there was a famous sanctuary in the tribe of Benjamin.

Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal. — This was the well-known sanctuary of that name and was selected as the pl…

Then said Samuel to the people
Agreeing to what Saul had said, and in order to put them off from demanding the lives…

They now honored Saul whom they had despised; and if an enemy is made a friend, that is more to our advantage than to have him slain. The once desp…