Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice. —The answer at once reassured the villagers. He had simply come to perform the usual r…

And he said, peaceably I am come to sacrifice unto the Lord ,
&c.] Which he could say with truth, it being one end o…

It appears that Saul had grown very wicked. Of what would he not be guilty, who dared to think of killing Samuel? The elders of Bethlehem trembled …