Saul (king) was not yet king, and this was one of the lands he wandered through while searching for his father's donkeys.
1 Samuel 9:4He passed through the hill country of Ephraim and the land of Shalisha, but they did not find them. Then they passed through the land of Shaalim, but the donkeys were not there. Then he passed through the land of the Benjaminites, but they did not find them.