And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
Am not I a Benjamite ... By selecting a king from this least and nearly extinct tribe (Judges 20:1-48), divine wisdom designed to remove all grounds of jealousy among the other tribes.