And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
Ver. 8. And he tarried seven days,] i.e., Till part of the seventh day was past; but because patience had not her perfect work, wanting nothing, Jam 1:3 the line of hope was not drawn out to the full length. Saul lost his kingdom by his precipitancy rashness and prefestination. hastiness If Samuel stayed to the last hour, it was not but by direction from the Lord whose ordinary course it is to prove us by delays, and to drive us to exigents, that we may show what we are: for that is every man in truth, that he is in a temptation.