Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.
"Saul’s ascent to the throne was now complete, and the ’great celebration’ that accompanied the sacrificial ritual more than matched Israel’s earlier elation upon their receiving the messengers’ report of the imminent doom of the Ammonites (1 Samuel 11:9)." [Note: Youngblood, p. 642.] 