Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
This is manifestly a gloss inserted in the older narrative by the later editor of the sacred text, to explain the use of the term in I Samuel 9:11, I Samuel 9:18-19. It is one among many instances which Proverbs how the very letter of the contemporary narratives was preserved by those who in later times compiled the histories. We cannot say exactly when the term "seer" became obsolete. See the marginal references.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Samuel 9:9:
2 Samuel 7:2
Isaiah 1:1
Isaiah 32:3
Obadiah 1:1
Acts 2:17
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