Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 15:2

2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalck did to Israel , how he laid wait for him in the way when he came up from Egypt .

I seem to have forgotten, but now I will shew that I remember, and now will revenge those old Iniuries done 400 Years ago, which now I will punish in their Children: which was the more just, because they continued in their Parents cruel Practices, below, v. 33.

When he was newly come out of cruel and lorig Bondage, and were now weak, and weary, and faint, and hungry, Deut. 25. 18. and therefore it was Barbarous and Inhuman, instead of that Pity which even Nature prompted them to afford, to add affliction to the afflicted; it was also horrid Impiety to fight against God himself, and to lift up their Hand in a manner against the Lord's Throne, as some Translate these words, Exod. 17. 16. whilst they struck at that People which God had brought forth in so stupendious and Miraculous a way.

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