And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.
When he had turned his back ... God gave him another heart. Influenced by the words of Samuel, as well as by the accomplishment of these signs, Saul's reluctance to undertake the onerous office was overcome. The fulfillment of the two first signs is passed over, but the third is specially described. The spectacle of a man, thought fitter to look after his father's cattle than to take part in the sacred exercises of the young prophets-a man without any previous instruction, or any known taste-entering with ardour into the spirit, and skillfully accompanying the melodies, of the sacred band, was so extraordinary a phenomenon that it gave rise to the proverb, "Is Saul also among the prophets?" (see the note at 1 Samuel 19:24.) The prophetic spirit had come upon him; and to Saul it was as personal and experimental an evidence of the truth of God's word that had been spoken to him as converts to Christianity have in themselves from the sanctifying power of the Gospel.