1 Samuel 9:3

3. One of the servants Traditionally believed to have been Doeg the Edomite, afterwards chief herdsman of Saul. 1 Samuel 21:7. His being “detained before the Lord” at Nob shows him to have been religiously disposed, and this may account for his knowledge of the seer Samuel. See on 1 Samuel 9:6.

Go seek the asses “Among cattle in the East at all times, and especially in times ere horses were in use for riding, asses were of very much importance; and when, therefore, it was found one morning that some of Kish’s asses were missing, Saul himself, accompanied by a servant, at once set out in search of them. If such an incident now happened in Palestine, it would be at once concluded that the animals had been stolen; and it speaks well for the state of society in the time of Samuel that this suspicion never crossed the mind of Saul or his father. It was simply concluded that the asses had strayed.” Kitto.