1 Samuel 13:11-12 And Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me… What a solemn and impressive condemnation have we here of that far too common practice — deserting principle to serve expediency. I don't like to tell a lie, someone may say, but if I had not done it I should have lost my situation. I dislike common work on the Sabbath day, but if I did not do it, I could not live. I don't think it right to go to Sunday parties or to play games on Sundays, but I was invited by this or that great person to do it, and I could not refuse him. I ought not to adulterate my goods, and I ought not to give false statements of their value, but every one in my business does it, and I cannot be singular. What do these vindications amount to, but just a confession that from motives of expediency God's commandment may be set aside? (W. O. Blaikie, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash; |
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