But while Saul was talking to the priest, the confusion in the Philistine camp grew louder and louder. So Saul said to the priest, “Never mind; let’s get going!”
Saul had called for the ephod, i.e., for special direction from God, but then he told the priest to forget about it —time was wasting.
This was Saul —impulsive, self-willed. Those two characteristics render any man useless in the kingdom of God.
