The people said to Samuel, Who is he who said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.
"Saul’s ascent to the throne was now complete, and the ’great celebration’ that accompanied the sacrificial ritual more than matched Israel’s earlier elation upon their receiving the messengers’ report of the imminent doom of the Ammonites (1 Samuel 11:9)." [Note: Youngblood, p. 642.] 