1 Chronicles 10:13, 14 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not… As we look at the account of Saul's death (vers. 2-4), how natural it seems - just in the ordinary course of battle! No eye looking at it could put any other interpretation upon it. But mark the Divine testimony - "God slew him." The battle and the archers and all the second causes are simply but the drapery behind which the Divine hand was carrying out its purposes of removing Saul to set up David. Thus must we look at everything that passes before the eye. It is the province of faith to look behind all the drapery and see the Divine hand. To this moral elevation none can reach but they who are habitually in communion with God. Not the "archers," not the armour-bearer's "sword" - not these, but "God slew him," and "turned the kingdom unto David." And observe the identification of the Lord's word here with the Lord himself. To sin against the Word is the same as to sin against God. So it is said of Jonah when he disobeyed the Lord's Word, "he rose up to flee from the presence of the Lord. Let us ever learn that the Lord's Word is God himself, and the despite done to one is done to the other. - W. Parallel Verses KJV: So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it; |
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