In the gate; the gate, either, first, Of Samuel's house. But he was come out thence before, 1 Samuel 9:14. Or rather, secondly, Of the city; for the word gate being put by itself, according to reason and common use, must be understood of the most eminent in its kind, which the gate of the city is. And through this gate Samuel seems now to have been passing to go to the high place, which probably was without the city; and there he makes a stand, to hear what these persons now approaching to him were about to speak.
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1 Samuel 9:18
18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is.