But now your kingdom shall not continue: Yahweh has sought him a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.
Samuel’s departure from the battlefield (1 Samuel 13:15) was symbolic of the breach that now opened up between Samuel and Saul. Saul’s presumptuous plan also failed to bring his departing soldiers back to him.