Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 15:24

24 Sǎoluó duì Sǎmǔĕr shuō , wǒ yǒu zuì le , wǒ yīn jùpà bǎixìng , tīng cóng tāmende huà , jiù wéibeì le Yēhéhuá de mìnglìng hé nǐde yányǔ .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 15:24 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 15:24

And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned
This confession of his sin does not appear to be ingenuous, cordial, and sincere, and was made chiefly for the sake of getting the sentence of rejecting him from being king reversed:

for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words;
which last seems to be added to collogue with Samuel, and to ingratiate himself with him; and Abarbinel thinks that Saul suspected that Samuel had aggravated the matter of himself, and that he did not really transgress the words of the Lord, but as the words of Samuel; and therefore according to the words of Samuel he had sinned, but not according to the words of the Lord only;

because I feared the people;
Doeg the Edomite, who was reckoned as all of them, Jarchi says: this was a mere excuse of Saul's, he stood in no fear of the people, he kept them in awe, and did as he would with them, as a sovereign prince:

and obeyed their voice;
in sparing the best of the cattle; so be pretended, when it was his own will, and the effect of his covetousness.

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 15:24 In-Context

22 Sǎmǔĕr shuō , Yēhéhuá xǐyuè Fánjì hépíng ān jì , qǐ rú xǐyuè rén tīng cóng tāde huà ne . tīng méng shēng yú xiànjì . shùncóng shēng yú gōng yáng de zhīyóu .

23 Beìnì de zuì yǔ xíng xiéshù de zuì xiāng dĕng . wán gĕng de zuì yǔ baì xū shén hé ǒuxiàng de zuì xiāngtóng . nǐ jì yànqì Yēhéhuá de mìnglìng , Yēhéhuá yĕ yànqì nǐ zuò wáng .

24 Sǎoluó duì Sǎmǔĕr shuō , wǒ yǒu zuì le , wǒ yīn jùpà bǎixìng , tīng cóng tāmende huà , jiù wéibeì le Yēhéhuá de mìnglìng hé nǐde yányǔ .

25 Xiànzaì qiú nǐ shèmiǎn wǒde zuì , tóng wǒ huí qù , wǒ hǎo jìngbaì Yēhéhuá .

26 Sǎmǔĕr duì Sǎoluó shuō , wǒ bù tóng nǐ huí qù . yīnwei nǐ yànqì Yēhéhuá de mìnglìng , Yēhéhuá yĕ yànqì nǐ zuò Yǐsèliè de wáng.