1 Samuel 15:24

24 Saúl implora perdón
Entonces Saúl le confesó a Samuel:
—Es cierto, he pecado. He desobedecido tus instrucciones y el mandato del Señor
, porque tuve miedo del pueblo y por eso hice lo que ellos me pidieron.

1 Samuel 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.

1 Samuel 15:24 In-Context

22 Pero Samuel respondió:
—¿Qué es lo que más le agrada al Señor
:
tus ofrendas quemadas y sacrificios,
o que obedezcas a su voz?
¡Escucha! La obediencia es mejor que el sacrificio,
y la sumisión es mejor que ofrecer la grasa de carneros.

23 La rebelión es tan pecaminosa como la hechicería,
y la terquedad, tan mala como rendir culto a ídolos.
Así que, por cuanto has rechazado el mandato del Señor
,
él te ha rechazado como rey.

24 Saúl implora perdón
Entonces Saúl le confesó a Samuel:
—Es cierto, he pecado. He desobedecido tus instrucciones y el mandato del Señor
, porque tuve miedo del pueblo y por eso hice lo que ellos me pidieron.

25 Pero ahora, por favor, perdona mi pecado y regresa conmigo para que pueda adorar al Señor
.

26 Pero Samuel respondió:
—¡No volveré contigo! Ya que tú rechazaste el mandato del Señor
, él te ha rechazado como rey de Israel.