Saul had come from Michmash to Gilgal, expecting to gather the force of the whole nation around him. Instead, the people fled, leaving him in the e…

What hast thou done? —The deeper aspects of King Saul’s sin are discussed in Excursus F. On this memorable occas…

And Samuel said, what have you done ?
This question he put to bring him to a confession of what he had done, otherwi…

Saul broke the order explicitly given by Samuel (see 1 Samuel 10:8) regarding what should be done in extreme situations. Saul offered s…