1 Samuel 15:26 - John Wesley's Notes

1 Samuel 15:26

24 ^aThen Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I ^bfeared the people and obeyed their voice.

25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord.”

26 But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, ^afor you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

27 And as Samuel turned around to go away, ^aSaul seized the edge of his robe, and it tore.

28 So Samuel said to him, ^a“The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.

29 And also the Strength of Israel ^awill not lie nor relent. For He is not a man, that He should relent.”

30 Then he said, “I have sinned; yet ^ahonor me now, please, before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.”

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1 Samuel 15:26

I will not - This was no lie, though he afterwards returned, because he spoke what he meant; his words and his intentions agreed together, though afterwards he saw reason to change his intentions. Compare Genesis 19:2-3. This may relieve many perplexed consciences, who think themselves obliged to do what they have said they would do, though they see just cause to change their minds. Hath rejected thee, etc. - But he does not say, he "hath rejected thee from salvation." And who besides hath authority to say so?

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