OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 24:17

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He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

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Verse 17. Voice. He was at such a distance, as not to be able to distinguish his features.—Wept. The greatest reprobates may sometimes feel sentiments of compunction, so that we need not here doubt of Saul’s sincerity. Calmet.—He might otherwise have turned upon David with his 3,000, and easily have seized his prey. Bible.

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