When he turned his back to leave Samuel, God gave him another heart. And all these signs came to pass that day.
Saul has now taken his leave of Samuel, much amazed, we may well suppose, at what has been done to him, almost ready to question whether he be awake or no, and whether it be not all a dream. Now here we are told, I. What occurred by the way, Sa1 10:9.
Commenting on 1 Samuel 10:9-16
And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel,.... When he had taken his leave of him, and set forward on his journey: God gave him another heart; not in a moral or spiritual sense, not a new heart, and a new spirit, as in conversion, but in a civil sense, a right heart, a heart fit for government...
when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, 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 fulfilment of the two first signs [Sa1 10:7-8] is passed over, but the third is specially described.