Saul said to his uncle, He told us plainly that the donkeys were found. But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel spoke, he didn't tell him.
God’s Spirit also gave Saul the ability to prophesy (1 Samuel 10:10). This was the outward evidence that God was with Saul. It apparently involved the Holy Spirit controlling these men, and their manifesting His control by praising God (cf. 1 Samuel 19:20-24; 1 Chronicles 25:1-3). The evidence of this new gift surprised people who knew Saul, and they took note of it (1 Samuel 10:11). Some students of this passage have concluded that Saul demonstrated this gift with ecstatic behavior. [Note: E.g., Bright, p. 166.] Others have not. [Note: E.g. Leon J. Wood, "Ecstasy and Israel’s Early Prophets," Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society 9 (Summer 1966):125-37. See also idem, The Prophets . . ., pp. 40-56, 91-92.] I see no evidence of it in the text.