BRAGADAYJAH 139

Saturday, January 23, 2016

BRAGADAYJAH 854

BRAGADAYJAH 854
Hearing the Lord’s words of grief towards Saul, and having spent a sleepless night, Samuel rose early in the morning, and went looking for Saul Samuel, and was told that Saul went to Carmel, and having sojourned there briefly had moved on to Gilgal.  And so Samuel went there and confronted Saul. But before Samuel could say a word, Saul seized the opportunity to defend himself.  “Bless be thou of the Lord, Saul said to Samuel. “I have performed the commandment of the Lord.” And so Samuel asked him why then he was hearing the bleating of sheep and the lowing of the oxen in his ears?  Saul’s all too quick reply was that the people had brought them from the Amalekites.  “They spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen for a sacrifice unto the Lord; but the rest we have utterly destroyed. Then Samuel told Saul to give him a moment and allow him to hear what the Lord’s response to him will be.  We note that Saul’s response when it related to the wrongdoing was, ‘the people;’ ”The people took the spoils;” but as to that which complied with God’s command, it was ‘we.’  “The rest we have utterly destroyed.”

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