1 Samuel 15:29 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁹And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.

1 Samuel 15:29 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 24:14
I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Titus 1:2
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
2 Timothy 2:13
If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
Hebrews 6:18
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 24-31)

Saul is at length brought to put himself into the dress of the penitent; but it is too evident that he only acts the part of a penitent, and is not one indeed. Observe, I. How poorly he expressed his repentance. It was with much ado that he was made sensible of his fault, and not till he was threatened with being deposed. This touched him in a tender part. Then he began to relent, and not till the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 29)

29. the Strength of Israel will not lie--Hebrew, “He that gives a victory to Israel,” a further rebuke of his pride in rearing the Carmel trophy, and an intimation that no loss would be sustained in Israel by his rejection.