1 Samuel 9:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

1 Samuel 9:5 [And] when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that [was] with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave [caring] for the asses, and take thought for us.

Ver. 5. And when they were come to the land of Zuph.] Samuel's country. 1Sa 1:1 Saul's city, Gibeah, is not once mentioned in the foregoing description of him: haply because infamous for the rape there committed upon the Levite's concubine.

Lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.] Saul was a better son than afterwards he proved a father; serviceable and solicitous of his father's comfort: but to his good son Jonathan, currish and cruel.

1 Samuel 9:5

5 And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.