According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
Ver. 8. According to all the works which they have done.] Populus hic antiquum obtinet, these are no changelings, but as naught as need to be, and as they ever have been η παλαι γυνη, as it was said of Helena after her return from Troy, the same woman still; and as the Lord somewhere complaineth of this perverse people, "This hath been thy manner from thy youth."
And served other gods.] Who never did anything for them, nor could do: therefore Samuel had the less reason to repine. See Joh 13:16 Matthew 10:24,25. King Alphonsus professed that he wondered not so much at his courtiers' ingratitude toward him, as at God's patience toward them and himself.