And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me. And I gave to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire.

The man of yours, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall consume your eyes, and grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.

His return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he judged Israel: and he built there an altar to the LORD.

Saul built an altar to the LORD. This was the first altar that he built to the LORD.