1 Samuel 9:25

25. From the high place into the city So the place of this sacrifice was outside of the city, and apparently on a hill overhanging it. Communed with Saul upon the top of the house The flat roofs of oriental houses were places of evening recreation as well as sleeping places. Otto Von Gerlach supposes that the topics of this conversation upon the roof were “the deep religious and political degradation of the people of God, the oppression by the heathen, the causes of the inability of the Israelites to stand before their foes, the necessity for a conversion of the people, and the want of a leader who was entirely devoted to God.”