But Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.”
Yahweh said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.’
“If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” This shows the depths of evil to which King Saul had fallen. He never overcame his character faults, and he had now come to the place he was evil and opposed God.