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1Sa_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.