OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 18:13

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Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

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Verse 13. People, as their leader. Saul gave him an honourable, but dangerous office, to procure his destruction. This is frequently the manner in which men of superior talents have been treated, ( Calmet.) as Corbulo, Germanicus, and Agricola were by three Roman emperors. Tacit. Ann. ii. and so forth

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