Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;
"The Lord anointed you king over Israel"  (1 Samuel 15:17).  This was Samuel's unanswerable argument against Saul's claim that, "the people" were to blame for saving the cattle.  There was no possibility whatever that the people would have spared the cattle without the permission of their king. There even seems to be an implication in Saul's word to Samuel here, "That he wanted to let Samuel know that he was now king, and that he would carry on affairs after his own fashion."[15]