When thou wast little in thine own sight. —Kimchi’s rendering of the Hebrew here is singular: “Though you seem to yoursel…

And Samuel said, when you [wast] little in your own sight ,
&c.] Humble and lowly, and had a mean opinion of himself…

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.…