1 Samuel 15: 11

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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 . . .

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.