“Samuel said to Saul: You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which He commanded you. For now the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever” 1 Samuel 13:11-13

“Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?” Matthew 7:3

I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. I am feeble and severely broken; I groan because of the turmoil of my heart… For in You, O Lord, I hope; You will hear, O Lord my God. Psalm 38:6, 8, 15

When David was returning from the slaughter of the Philistine … the women sang as they danced, and said: “Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands.”

Then Saul was very angry, and the saying displeased him; and he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed only thousands”… So Saul eyed David from that day forward.” 1 Samuel 18:6-9

Saul was king for

40 years.