Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,
"And he shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines"  (1 Samuel 9:16).  H. P. Smith wrote that, "This sentence is a direct contradiction of  1 Samuel 7:11ff";[17] but such an error should be rejected. (See our comment on  1 Samuel 7:11ff, above.)