15And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
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But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. …
And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief. …
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-23)Saul is here called to account by Samuel concerning the execution of his commission against the Amalekites; and remarkable instances we are here furnished with of the strictness of the justice of God and the treachery and deceitfulness of the heart of man. We are here told, I. What passed between God and Samuel, in secret, upon this occasion, 1 Sam. 15:10 , 11 . 1. God determines Saul’s rejection,…
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