20And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.
The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
Commentary
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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