Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, Isn't it that Yahweh has anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?
1 Samuel 10:8 is branded as an outright interpolation having no place whatever in this narrative.[9]  Payne understood the verse as a prophetic reference to  1 Samuel 13:7-14, where "Gilgal is mentioned as Saul's ultimate destination and the place of his failure."[10]  This writer does not believe that either of these viewpoints is necessarily correct.  There is a genuine possibility that the reference is here made to a trip to Gilgal by Samuel (he went there regularly) and that he set up an appointment here with Saul to further instruct him in the kingship.  Of course, we know nothing of any such occasion; but there are a thousand other things that happened at that time of which we are totally uninformed.  This account is abbreviated.