Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 15:24

24 ¶ And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned : for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words ; because I feared the people , and obeyed their voice.

Which confession proceeded not from true Repentance, but from the sence of his great Danger, and from a desire of recalling that dreadful Sentence denounced against him.

i. e. The Commandment of the Lord delivered to me by thy words. Another Hendiadis.

Who, as thou knowest, are set upon mischief, and would probably have broken forth into a Mutiny or Rebellion, had I done otherwise. But how little he feared the People, may be seen by 1 Sam. 11. 7. and 14. 24. But this was a false cause: nor doth he acknowledge the true cause, which was his Covetousness, and because he did not fear God.