Matthew Poole Commentary - 1 Samuel 16:2 - 16:2

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Matthew Poole Commentary - 1 Samuel 16:2 - 16:2


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How can I go, to wit, safely? a question which seems to savour of human frailty; for he should have strongly believed that God, who had set him upon the work, would carry him through it.



I am come to sacrifice to the Lord; which he used oft to do, sometimes in one place, and sometimes in another, that so he might encourage and keep up the worship of God in all of them. This was one cause, though not the only cause, of his coming; nor was he obliged to declare all the causes of it.