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I will send thee a man; I will by my secret providence so dispose of matters, and of the hearts of Saul and his father, that Saul shall come to thee, though with another design.
That he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for though they were now most pressed with the Ammonites, as we read, 1Sa_12:12, yet they looked upon these as a land-flood, which they hoped would be soon up, and soon down again; but the Philistines, their constant, inveterate, and nearest enemies, they most dreaded. And from these Saul did in some measure save them, and should have saved them much more, if his and the people’s manifold sins had not hindered it.
I have looked on my people, to wit, with compassion and resolution to help them; a usual synecdoche.
Their cry, i.e. their earnest prayers to me for help.