1 Samuel 15:4-35 ASV

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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 15:11-23

1 Samuel 15:11-23It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king.Saul rejectedThe story is graphic and pathetic. This is Saul’s victory and also his defeat. Our defeats are often wrapped up in our victories. Some of our most dismal failures are hidden from us by the glare of a partial and disastrous success. Saul succeeded and failed. He conquered Agag, but disobeyed God. And so the glory of his victory is lost in the darkness of his defeat. A man may conquer the greatest of earth’s kings,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 15:14

1 Samuel 15:14What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears. Hypocrisy1.I learn, first, from the subject that God will expose hypocrisy. A hypocrite is one who pretends to be what he is not, or to do what he does not. Saul was only a type of a class. There are a great many churches that have two or three ecclesiastical Uriah Heeps. When the fox begins to pray, look out for your chickens. A man of that kind is of immense damage to the Church of Christ. A ship may outride a hundred... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 15:20

1 Samuel 15:20Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have gone the way which the Lord sent me.Saul’s obedienceWe invite your attention to some features of Saul’s character, as drawn out by the way in which he obeyed the Divine command.1. First, let us notice the zeal and alacrity with which Saul proceeded to carry out the Divine will. Unlike Moses, who complained of his want of eloquence when bidden to go to Pharaoh in Jehovah’s name, and plead for the deliverance of his oppressed... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 15:22

1 Samuel 15:22Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice.Obedience and sacrificeSaul’s misconduct supplied the occasion for the announcement of an absolute and eternal truth.I. That sacrifice is only circumstantially necessary, but obedience is essentially so.1. Sacrifice is either an atonement for offence, and then, however excellent the remedy, it cannot for its own sake be as acceptable to the Creator as the healthful action which renders the remedy unnecessary.2. It is the suffering... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 15:23

1 Samuel 15:23Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. Rebellion against God all malignant as witchcraftTo rebel against the clearest light and most express declaration of the will of God: this is an action of the like malignity, even as the sin of witchcraft. When a crime is said to be “as the sin of witchcraft,” the meaning is that it is a fault of so heinous and provoking a nature that the obstinate commission of it is altogether inconsistent with all true principles of religion, and, in... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 15:24

1 Samuel 15:24I have sinned. Temporary religious feeling“Some are frightened into a little religiousness in their straits and deep necessities, but it is poor work and superficial work. They are like an ice in thawing weather, soft at top and hard at bottom.” They melt, but to no very great extent. It is upon the surface only that they yield to heavenly influences. This is a sorry state of things, for it generally ends in a harder frost than before, and the bonds of cold indifference bind the... read more

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The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 15:26

1 Samuel 15:26Thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee.One sin too manyThe whole story affords an extensive illustration of sin in almost all of its phases of manifestation as judged by the righteous law of God.1. We discover the simple nature of sin: it is disobedience of a Divine command.2. We learn, likewise, a lesson concerning the wide reach of sin. Saul felt quite independent in his disobedience It is not possible for any man to keep his sin all to himself.... read more

Joseph Exell

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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 15:32

1 Samuel 15:32Surely, the bitterness of death is passed.Death an advantageSo cried Agag, and the only objection I have go this text is that a bad man uttered it. Nevertheless, it is true, and in a higher sense than that in which it was originally uttered. We talk about the shortness of life, but if we exercised good sense we would realise that life is quite long enough. If we are the children of God, we are at a banquet, and this world is only the first course of the food, and we ought to be... read more

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Samuel 15:1-35

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 15:11-23

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 15:14

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 15:20

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 15:22

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 15:23

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 15:24

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 15:26

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 15:30

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 15:32

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