The Lord has spoken. —The promise here quoted is not contained in so many words in the records which have come down to us. It may …

Now then do [it] Make him your king, and I shall no longer oppose it as I have done:

for the Lord has …

Many, like Abner, are not above committing base crimes, who are too proud to bear reproof, or even the suspicion of being guilty. While people go o…