1. What difficulty there is in this verse I cannot conceive. Saul "was the son of a year in his reign" (see margin) "and he reigned two years over Israel, and Saul chose," etc. "Saul reigned," is the identical expression used in Kings, "and... was... years old when he began to reign," but, if so, his age is left out—"He reigned (two) years" is the accompanying expression there. He must have been between thirty and forty, for Jonathan his son had command of troops; a younger son forty when Saul died.
8 refers clearly to chapter 10:8.
19. "Hebrews" is the regular Gentile word. Abram is called “Abram the Hebrew"; see also Ex. 2:6, 7, 13, so chapter 1:16 and 19. There cannot be a doubt that it was the name used by strangers—“the children of Eber."