Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Hewed in pieces - Only found in this passage. Samuel thus executed the chērem I Samuel 15:3 which Saul had violated, and so both saved the nation from the guilt of a broken oath, and gave a final example to Saul, but apparently in vain, of uncompromising obedience to the commandments of God. There is something awful in the majesty of the prophet rising above and eclipsing that of the king (compare I Kings 21:20; Jeremiah 38:14 ff; Daniel 2:46; Daniel 4:27).
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Samuel 15:33:
Leviticus 27:28
Judges 8:20
Daniel 2:5
Hosea 4:15
Hosea 9:12
Matthew 24:45-51
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