The kingdom was now forfeited. It only remained for Samuel to pronounce the divine sentence. “Thou has done foolishly: thou has not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God, which He commanded thee: for now would the Lord have established thy kingdom over Israel forever. But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought Him a man after His own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over His people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.” The righteousness of the sentence was fully demonstrated by the wilfulness of the unhappy king in the subsequent expedition against Amalek (1 Sam. 15). The man of the people's choice must now give place to another.
There is but One whom God can absolutely trust in the place of power. David was a feeble type of Him. He, who was patient and obedient during the years of His humiliation, will rule in perfect righteousness for God in a day soon to come. Then the will of God will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Come, Lord Jesus.