Then he turned from those who were nearby to someone else and asked the same question, but they gave him the same answer as before.

The soldiers told him what had been promised, saying, “This is what will be done for the man who can strike him down.”

Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjaminite, from the smallest of Israel’s tribes, and is not my family clan the smallest of all the tribes of Benjamin? Why do you speak to me in this way?”