And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
The Strength of Israel will not lie, х Neetsach (H5331) Yisraa'eel (H3478)] - the Glory of Israel, the Object of Israel's confidence, He that gives victory to Israel (cf. 1 Chronicles 29:11), will not lie nor repent - i:e., as Josephus expresses it ('Antiquities,' b. 6: ch. 7:, sec. 5), 'God will persevere in what He has decreed concerning you: to be mutable and changeable in what is determined is agreeable to human passions only, but is not agreeable to the divine majesty.' This was a further rebuke of Saul's pride in rearing the Carmel trophy, and an intimation that no loss would be sustained in Israel by his rejection.