1Sa 15:1-35 :1 Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee [to be] king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.
Ver. 1. The Lord sent me to anoint thee to be king.] And kings are doubly bound to obey the Lord, - as Queen Elizabeth wrote to Henry IV of France, - first as men; next as men so entrusted and advanced.
Now therefore hearken thou.] Now at least, and at length, after thy so foul miscarriages, and God's heavy menaces thereupon. 1Sa 13:8-9 Ut prioris inobedientiae nexus enodes, as Gregory hath it, that thou mayest redeem thine own sorrows, breaking off thy sins by righteousness, if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity, or a healing of thine error. Dan 4:27