The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 15:30
1 Samuel 15:30I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people. True and false repentanceHow may we discriminate between a merely seeming repentance and genuine penitence? There is hardly a passage of Scripture which could render us mere decided assistance than that portion of Saul’s history which here claims attention.I. We see that though there was confession, it was not made until Saul was actually compelled to make it, because the evidence of his sin was... read more
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Samuel 15:1-35
1 Samuel 15:2 . I remember what Amalek did; Numbers 17:8; and what he has often repeated, in the effusion of innocent blood. He joined Midian, and the children of the east, in a bloody and unprovoked invasion of Israel. Judges 6:3. 1 Samuel 15:3 . Utterly destroy all. God himself passed the sentence. The Kenites, (1 Samuel 15:6, and Judges 1:4.) live for their kindness, while the Amalekites die for their cruelties. But many saved themselves by flight, for David found them still occupying... read more