There is something thoroughly contemptible in Saul's attempt to shift the responsibility for what was done from his own kingly shoulders to those o…

The people spared the best of the sheep ... —At once the king understood the drift of his old friend’s words; still more,…

And Saul said, they have brought them from the Amalekites ,
&c.] That is, the people, laying the blame upon them, as…

Repentance in God is not a change of mind, as it is in us, but a change of method. The change was in Saul; He is turned back from following me.…