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THE FIRST BOOK OF
SAMUEL
OTHERWISE CALLED
THE FIRST BOOK OF THE KINGS
CHAPTER 15
  11 aIt brepenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the Lord all night.

Footnotes
11a
JST 1 Sam. 15: 11 I have set up Saul to be a king, and he repenteth not that he hath sinned, for he is . . .
b
The Heb. root means ‘to sigh,’ therefore ‘to feel sorrow.’
Gen. 6: 6.
  6 And it arepented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it bgrieved him at his heart.
2 Sam. 24: 16.
  16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord arepented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: bstay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
Joel 2: 13.
  13 And arend your heart, and not your garments, band turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great ckindness, and drepenteth him of the evil.