John Gill's Exposition on 1 Samuel 28:18

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the Lord, etc.] At Gilgal, as Abarbinel thinks; which is the first thing for which the kingdom was threatened to be taken from him, (<091313>1 Samuel 13:13,14); nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek: in sparing Agag, and the best of the cattle, (<091509>1 Samuel 15:9,28); therefore hath the Lord done this thing unto thee this day; forsaken him, rent his kingdom from him, and would deliver him into the hands of the Philistines, as follows: had he been the true Samuel, he would have told him of some other sins of his, provoking to the Lord; as his slaughter of the priests at Nob, his cruel persecution of David, and especially of his asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit at this time, of which not a word is said, and yet was the very transgression for which Saul died, (<131013>1 Chronicles 10:13,14).

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