When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, Come, and let us return, lest my father leave off caring for the donkeys, and be anxious for us.
"He who is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer"  (1 Samuel 9:9).  This has nothing whatever to do with a late date for this narrative, because  1 Samuel 9:9 is freely admitted by all scholars to be a gloss, once a marginal comment that was accidentally included in the text.  "The word `prophet' is the older and established word from the beginning of the O.T. to the end of it."[12]