Komentaryo sa 1 Samuel 11:14: Tze'enah Ure'enah & Rashi

“Samuel said to the people” [11:14]. Samuel said to the people. Let us go and we will renew the kingship, with King Saul, since many Israelites had shamed Saul. They said: what can this Saul help us? However, now they had seen that Saul had helped Israel from king Nahash, all of Israel accepted him as the proper king in Gilgal.¹Radak, I Samuel, 11:14. They brought sacrifices to God and they rejoiced greatly. Samuel said: I have done your will and have given you a king. The king can go before you and I am old and gray.

Our sages say that he was only fifty-two years old when he died. The Holy One had made him prematurely gray in the expectation that the people should remember that he was old and should not say that such a righteous person like Samuel the prophet died so young. He must certainly have committed sins. The truth is that Samuel prayed that he should die, so that he should not see Saul die in his lifetime. That is why the Holy One made him prematurely gray.²Radak, I Samuel, 12:2.

And Shmuel said, "…and renew the kingdom there." Because at first there was opposition in the matter, but now they unanimously agreed.⁹ Shmuel merely invited them to Gilgol; it was not a command. See above 9:9 for a similar expression וְנֵלְכָה. However, now that Shaul saved the people of Yoveish Gilad from the Ammonites; all the people rallied behind him and accepted him as their king.