1 Samuel 10:14
And Saul’s uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that they were no where, we came to Samuel. And Saul’s uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that they were no where, we came to Samuel.
1 Samuel 10:14 belongs to the account of the choosing and anointing of Saul as king. In it Saul answers his uncle's question about where he and his servant had gone by saying they had gone to seek the asses and, when they were nowhere to be found, had come to Samuel. This answer shows Saul's humility after God gave him another heart, in that he reported that the asses had been found but did not volunteer what Samuel had said about the kingdom.
The chapter shows Saul's conversion: after God's will was made known to him through Samuel he was willing to obey, and God gave him another heart and turned him into another man. That change in Saul is being born again, accomplished by God's word and Spirit. The chapter is therefore evidence that conversion is taught in the Old Testament as plainly as in the New Testament. Saul's experience fully accounts for the rebuke to Nicodemus for not knowing about conversion, since one familiar with the Scriptures as a ruler in Israel ought to have known from Saul being turned into another man and receiving another heart that conversion is wrought by the Spirit of God.
The verse marks the end of the period from Joshua's death to Saul's coronation in Ussher's chronology, which places that period at about 331 years and is corrected by Paul's account in Acts 13:20. Saul's anointing closes the 450-year period in which the judges ruled, which began with the division of the land of Canaan. Since the marginal dates are B.C. 1444 for the division and B.C. 1095 for the anointing, leaving only 349 years instead of 450, Usher's chronology is about a hundred years too short and creation is that much farther in the past, showing that earth's 6,000 years are well-nigh run.