been speaking in general terms or the singular form could be understood as a collective. Nevertheless, it is perhaps significant that the text indicates Samuel arrived on the scene just after Saul had offered up the burnt offering but before he had had time to sacrifice the fellowship offerings (v. 10). “The narrator wants the reader to infer that Samuel was in fact close by, waiting to catch Saul and then to reprove him, as Samuel immediately does” (Preston, 34). The fact that upon Samuel’s arrival