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.
What a terrible penalty for such a tiny little sin!  That human reaction to what God did here, while perfectly natural, from the human standpoint, is totally in error.  No deliberate violation of the word of God is "a tiny little sin."  On the contrary, every sin is a soul-killing destruction.  Can anyone think of a smaller sin than that of Adam and Eve in their sampling of the fruit of the forbidden tree?  Yet all the wretched sorrows, miseries, diseases, bloodshed, violence, starvation and death which have dogged the steps of mankind ever since that "tiny little sin" should warn every man that there is no such thing as a `little sin.'