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to connect with the visit to Samuel, he forbore to gratify a curiosity, probably not
unmixed with worldly ambition and calculations.
But yet another charge had Samuel given to Saul before parting (ver. 8), and that not
only a charge, but a life-direction, a warning, and a test of what was in him. That he
understood it, is evident from 1 Samuel 13:7, 8. But would he submit to it, or rather
to God? That would be to him the place and time when the two ways met and parted
- and his choice of either one or the other would be decisive, both so far as his life
and his kingdom were concerned.
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