1 Samuel 10:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

To come near unto the place appointed for the casting of lots. This tribe was now preferred before Judah, because the kingdom was freely promised by God to Judah, and was to be given to him in love; but now the kingdom was in a manner forced from God, and given to them in anger, Hosea 13:11, and therefore conferred upon an obscure tribe.

1 Samuel 10:20

20 And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.