20Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
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These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. …
But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. …
How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-25)We are here told how Saul received this terrible message from the ghost he consulted. He desired to be told what he should do (1 Sam. 28:15), but was only told what he had not done and what should be done to him. Those that expect any good counsel or comfort otherwise than from God, and in the way of his institutions, will be as wretchedly disappointed as Saul here was. Observe, I. How he sunk und…
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