12 then I said, ‘The Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the Lord.’ Therefore I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.”

13 And Samuel said to Saul, (A)“You have done foolishly. (B)You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you. For now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14 (C)But now your kingdom shall not continue. (D)The Lord has sought for Himself a man (E)after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people, because you have (F)not kept what the Lord commanded you.”

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