When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come, let us go back, lest my father cease to care about the donkeys and become anxious about us.”
Here is, I. A great man rising from small beginnings. It does not appear that Saul had any preferment at all, or was in any post of honour or trust, till he was chosen king of Israel. Most that are advanced rise gradually, but Saul, from the level with his neighbours, stepped at once into the throne, according to that of Hannah, He raiseth up...
Commenting on 1 Samuel 9:3-10
And when they were come to the land of Zuph,.... In which was Ramathaimzophim, the native place of Samuel, Sa1 1:1 and so the Targum here,"the land in which was the prophet" Saul said to the servant that was with him, come, and let us return; home, despairing of finding the asses after so long a search in divers places: lest my father leave caring...
[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. (d) Where was Ramath Zophim, the city of Samuel.