grasped the edge of his own robe; however, LXX, 4QSama, and most commentators take it from the context to be Saul. It is possible that the MT attributes the act to Samuel as a deliberate symbolic action, considering such action to be undertaken by the prophets and not to be merely accidental (contrary view, Stoebe, 291; also McCarter, 260, 264, and 268; cf. Weiser, “1 Samuel 15,” 4). With Jeroboam, Ahijah tears his new garment; there is no accident (1 Kgs 11:30). Storytellers may be left liberties.