1 Samuel 12:23

I will teach you. Samuel assured the people that he had no grudge against them for their choice, and that he would devote his life to further instructing them in the things of God. Although he would not have the responsibility of government, now that they had appointed a king, yet as prophet he would still be God’s representative to them. Samuel sensed the dangers of the future. He knew that it would be impossible for man to do right without the Spirit of God to direct him. He began to realize that his burdens as prophet would probably be heavier even than in the past, yet he was determined that no one should ever be able to point the finger at him in reproachful terms, declaring that he had not stood by Israel through all the vicissitudes of life. He had been loyal to them as a judge; now that they had demoted him, as it were, he would prove that his love for them, like that of God, was unchanged.