It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs happened that day.
"Is Saul among the prophets?"  (1 Samuel 10:12).  Some scholars view the remarks of the citizens of Saul's home town as complimentary, and they might well have been so intended.  However, it seems to this writer that there is pure derision and bitter criticism in what they said.  The key to this impression is that question asked by one of the men of that place, "And who is their father"?  This is a sneering remark carrying the implication that the band of prophets was a group of nobodies and that Saul, the son of a wealthy and respectable citizen had lowered himself socially by associating with them.  Payne received the same impression. "The twin proverbs were plainly discourteous to Saul.  What was he, a respectable citizen, doing in the presence of these roaming madmen of unknown and dubious antecedents"?[11]