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NASB | 1 Samuel 13:13 Samuel said to Saul, "You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, for now the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Samuel 13:13 Samuel said to Saul, "You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, for [if you had obeyed] the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. |
Subject: Why does God repent in 1 Samuel 35? |
Bible Note: Hi jlpangilinan, Johnny, the commentaries are helpful but our best tool is still comparing Scripture with Scripture. Numbers 23:19, "God is not a man, that **He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; 20 Has He said, and will He/ not do it? Or has He spoken, and He will not make it good? 21 Behold I [Balaam] have received a command to bless; When (He) has blessed, then I [Balaam] cannot revoke it. 22 He has not observed misfortune in Jacob; Nor has He seen trouble in Israel; The Lord his God is with him, And the shout of a king [NKJ, King] is among them." 1) God is not a man, nor a son of man. Yet I know that Jesus is the Son of Man and I believe that the shout of a King was among them. 2) 1 Samuel 15:29, "And also the **Glory of Israel will not lie..." Numbers 23:19, "God is not a man, that **He should lie..." 3) 1 Samuel 15:29, "...not lie or change ***His mind; for He is not a man that He/ should change His mind." Numbers 23:19, "...Nor a son of man, that ***He should repent; Has He said, and will He/ not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good? Two times in 1 Samuel we read that the Lord regretted. 1 Samuel 15:11, "I regret that ***I have made Saul king,..." 1 Samuel 15:35, "...And the Lord regretted that ***He had made Saul king over Israel." Even though Saul did not work out as their earthly king, the fact remains that God selected the person as king, and what He says goes. 1 Samuel 8:22, "And the Lord said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice, and appoint them a king." But 1 Samuel 8:7 says, "And the Lord/ said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them. 8 Like all the deeds which they have done since the day that I brought them up from Egypt even to this day--in that they have forsaken (Me) and served other gods--so they are doing to you also." What He wants is for us to recognize Him as our King. From the heart, Ray |