Matthew Poole Commentary - 1 Samuel 15:2 - 15:2

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Matthew Poole Commentary - 1 Samuel 15:2 - 15:2


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I seem to have forgotten, but now I will show that I remember, and now will revenge, those old injuries done four hundred years ago, which now I will punish in their children; which was the more just, because they continued in their parents’ cruel practices, below, 1Sa_15:33. In the way when he came up from Egypt; when he was newly come out of cruel and long bondage, and was now weak, and weary, and faint, and hungry, Deu_25:18; and therefore it was barbarous and inhuman, instead of that pity which even nature prompted them to afford, to add affliction to the afflicted; it was also horrid impiety to fight against God himself, and to lift up their hand in a manner against the Lord’s throne, as some translate these words, Exo_17:16, whilst they struck at that people which God had brought forth in so stupendous and miraculous a way.