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Saul inquired of the Lord, in his slight and perfunctory way, as 1Sa_14:19, as appears from hence, that when God did not speedily answer him, he goes to the devil for an answer, 1Sa_28:7; for which reason he is said,
not to have
inquired of the Lord, 1Ch_10:14, i.e. not seriously, and after the right order. Possibly he inquired by some prophet then with him, or by the priest before the ark.
The Lord answered him not, because he sought him not in due order; not by the Urim and Thummim which were in the ephod, which he by his cruelty to the priests had lost, 1Sa_23:6; and because he did not truly repent of nor put away his sins, which provoked God, and kept him from answering, as Saul well knew by his own conscience and experience, 1Sa_14:37-39.
Neither by dreams,
nor by Urim, nor by prophets, i.e. neither by ordinary means, nor extraordinary.