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The Lord spake by secret inspiration.
The height of his stature; whereby thou wast once deceived in Saul, 1Sa_10:23,24, and therefore shouldst not now be deceived a second time.
Man looketh on the outward appearance; men value men by their outsides.
The Lord looketh on the heart; God esteems of men by the goodness of their hearts, and hath now proceeded by that rule in the choice of a king, and would have done so before, if the people’s sinful desires had not provoked him to give them a bad king.