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But now your kingdom will not continue. The LORD has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and the LORD has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which the LORD commanded you.”
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Verse 14. Continue long. This seems to have been a threat, which Saul might still have escaped, if he had not proved disobedient again. Saint Gregory says, “he might have been loosed from the bonds of his former disobedience;” prioris inobedientiæ nexus enodaret. The second rebellion caused him to be entirely rejected, and the prophet was ordered to go and anoint David. Calmet. 15. Salien.
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