25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the Lord.”
26 Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected the Lord’s word, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”
27 As Samuel turned around to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
28 Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbour of yours who is better than you.
29 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”
30 Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honour me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.”
31 So Samuel went back with Saul; and Saul worshipped the Lord.