And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which [were] about thirty persons.
Ver. 22. And made them sit in the chiefest place.] He envied not Saul's new dignity, though it were to the diminution of his own: sed excipit eum et tractat humanissime atque honorificentissime; a but giveth him the place.
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