All the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins [this] evil, to ask us a king.
"If you do wickedly, you shall be swept away, both you and your king"  (1 Samuel 12:25).  "This probably looks forward to Saul's death at Gilboa."[17]  It is the king not the prophet who receives this warning.