It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and said, Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him.
"Again it must be understood that this appointment of David carried with it no office, title or prerogatives.  It simply represented a future destiny to be worked out (by God Himself) in human history."[10]  God would use Saul himself in working out this future placement of David upon the throne of Israel.