Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 11:5

5 And behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field and Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? and they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.

For being onely Anointed King, and not publickly inaugurated, nor owned, nor presented by the generality of the People, nor having yet had any opportunity of doing any thing worthy of his Place, he thought sit to forbear all Royal State, and to retire to his former private, and Country Life, which, howsoever despised in these latter, vain, ambitious, and slothful Ages of the World, was anciently in great esteem among the Greeks and Romans, whose Princes and Generals did frequently exercise themselves in it. Though some conceive that he now lived in some State, and that he had been in the fields onely to recreate himself, and that his coming after the Herd was but accidental, and is mentioned onely to usher in what follows of the Yoke of Oxen.