He stayed seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel didn't come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
Another problem that surfaces here is that of that man "after God's own heart," who appears prophetically in this passage and who must, of course, be identified as King David.  Was not his sin of adultery with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband a lot worse than what Saul did here?  Where is God's sense of justice?  In reply to such sinful allegations as these, we should remember that God is eternally true and righteous and that, "God can choose David and reject Saul for his own reasons without any obligation to explain his actions to men."[12]