Samuel said, See ye him whom the Lord hath chosen? Though the people were resolutely bent on having a king, yet they were sensible only God could make one. And therefore they came in the beginning of this business, to ask one of his prophet. But Samuel could not constitute one without divine direction and appointment, as appears by the first verse of this chapter, where he says to Saul, The Lord hath anointed thee; and the lot whereby he was publicly chosen was cast before the Lord, 1 Samuel 10:19; 1 Samuel 10:23. Accordingly he here tells them, The Lord hath chosen him. Thus afterward the Lord commanded David to be anointed, 1 Samuel 19:1; 1 Samuel 19:3; and of all his sons, Solomon was particularly appointed by God to succeed him, 1 Chronicles 29:5. There is none like him among all the people As to his aspect and the height of his bodily stature, which was in itself desirable in a king, and some kind of indication of great endowments of mind. God save the king Hebrew, Let the king live; that is, long and prosperously. The same form was used in after ages when they made kings, 1Ki 1:34; 1 Kings 1:39; 2 Kings 11:12; 2 Chronicles 23:11. Hereby they accepted him for their king, and, in effect, promised subjection to him. None will be losers in the end by their humility and modesty. Honour, like the shadows, follows them that flee from it, but flees from them that pursue it.
1 Samuel 10:25. The manner of the kingdom The laws and rules by which the kingly government was to be managed; agreeably to those mentioned Deuteronomy 17:16, &c. Before the Lord Before the ark, where it was kept safe from depravation.