The people said to Samuel, Who is he who said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.
This type of comment is not a comment upon the Bible at all, but upon the Septuagint (LXX) and carries no weight whatever.  Josephus' words cannot confirm such a view because he was merely reading the erroneous interpretation which the translators of the Septuagint (LXX) inserted into the true text.