Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.
"The elders came trembling, and said, `Do you come peaceably'?"  (1 Samuel 16:4).  The most reasonable explanation of this is that of Willis, "They came trembling because it could be assumed that anyone supporting Samuel against Saul would incur Saul's wrath."[4]  What Saul later did to the priests at Nob fits this conclusion exactly  (1 Samuel 22:11-19).