1Sa 15:24-31 | Clarke | STEP | Verse 24 I have sinned - because I feared the people - This was the best excuse he could make for himself; but had he feared God more, he need have feared the People less.

1 Samuel 15:24-31

Verse 24

I have sinned - because I feared the people - This was the best excuse he could make for himself; but had he feared God more, he need have feared the People less. Verse 25

Pardon my sin - Literally, bear my sin; take it away; forgive what I have done against thee, and be my intercessor with God, that he may forgive my offense against him; turn again with me, that I may worship the Lord. Verse 26

I will not return with thee - I cannot acknowledge thee as king, seeing the Lord hath rejected thee. Verse 29

The Strength of Israel will not lie - What God has purposed he will bring to pass, for he has all power in the heavens and in the earth; and he will not repent - change his purpose - concerning thee.

We may say it was some extenuation of Saul's fault that the people insisted on preserving the best of the prey; for who could resist the demands of a victorious mob? But his crime was in consenting; had he not, the crime would have been theirs alone.