SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:19
Mas vosotros habéis desechado hoy a vuestro Dios, que os guarda de todas vuestras aflicciones y angustias, diciendo: No, sino pon rey sobre nosotros. Ahora, pues, poneos delante del SEÑOR por vuestras tribus y por vuestros millares.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:19
Verse 19. Present yourselves-by your tribes] It appears that, in order to find out the proper person who should be made their king, they must determine by lot: 1. The tribe. 2. The thousands or grand divisions by families. 3. The smaller divisions by families. And, 4. The individual. When the lot was cast for the tribe, Benjamin was taken; when for the thousand, the division of Matri was taken; when for the family, the family of Kish was taken; when for the individual, Saul, the son of Kish, was taken.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 19. And ye have this day rejected your God , etc.] As their king, by desiring another to be set over them; who himself saved you out of all your adversity and your tribulations ; that they had been in at any time in Egypt, in their passage through the wilderness to Canaan, and after they were settled there: ye have said unto him, [nay], but set a king over us : they did as good as say God should not be their King, but they would have one set over them like the kings of the nations about them; Samuel reminds them of this their request and resolution to have a king, which they had expressed some time ago, that it might appear to them that this was wholly of their own seeking; the motion came from themselves, and not from the Lord, nor from Samuel, and therefore, whatever ill consequences might follow upon it, they had none to blame but themselves: now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes, and by your thousands ; by the heads of their tribes, and by the rulers of the thousands into which their tribes were divided, that it might be known either by Urim and Thummim, or rather by casting lots, out of which tribe, and out of which thousand, house, and family in it, their king was to be chosen; which method, an it would clearly appear to be a choice directed by the Lord, so it would prevent all contention and discord among themselves.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 17-27 - Samuel tells the people, Ye have this day rejected your God. So littl fond was Saul now of that power, which soon after, when he possesse it, he could not think of parting with, that he hid himself. It is goo to be conscious of our unworthiness and insufficiency for the service to which we are called; but men should not go into the contrar extreme, by refusing the employments to which the Lord and the churc call them. The greater part of the people treated the matter with indifference. Saul modestly went home to his own house, but wa attended by a band of men whose hearts God disposed to support his authority. If the heart bend at any time the right way, it is becaus He has touched it. One touch is enough when it is Divine. Other despised him. Thus differently are men affected to our exalte Redeemer. There is a remnant who submit to him, and follow him whereve he goes; they are those whose hearts God has touched, whom he has mad willing. But there are others who despise him, who ask, How shall thi man save us? They are offended in him, and they will be punished __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ואתם 859 היום 3117 מאסתם 3988 את 853 אלהיכם 430 אשׁר 834 הוא 1931 מושׁיע 3467 לכם מכל 3605 רעותיכם 7451 וצרתיכם 6869 ותאמרו 559 לו כי 3588 מלך 4428 תשׂים 7760 עלינו 5921 ועתה 6258 התיצבו 3320 לפני 6440 יהוה 3068 לשׁבטיכם 7626 ולאלפיכם׃ 505
