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OET (OET-RV) and then they went back from the high place down into the city, and Shemuel spoke with Sha’ul on his house roof.
Note 1 topic: writing-pronouns
וַיֵּרְד֥וּ & וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר
and,came_down & and=he/it_spoke
The pronoun they refers primarily to Samuel and Saul, although it may also apply to the other guests. The pronoun he refers to Samuel. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: [And Samuel and Saul came down … And Samuel spoke]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר עִם־שָׁא֖וּל עַל־הַגָּֽג
and=he/it_spoke with Shāʼūl on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in the,roof
The author assumes that his readers will understand that Samuel brought Saul up onto the roof of his house to speak with him so that he could do that privately. (Flat roofs were common in this culture and people could sit and talk on them.) You could indicate this explicitly in your translation if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [And he spoke with Saul privately on the roof]
9:25 A typical house had a flat roof that was used for a variety of purposes, such as sleeping in warm weather (see Deut 22:8; 2 Kgs 4:10).
OET (OET-RV) and then they went back from the high place down into the city, and Shemuel spoke with Sha’ul on his house roof.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.