Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 16:2

2 And Samuel said, How can I go ? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD .

To wit, Safely? A Question which seems to savour of Human frailty; for he should have strongly believed that God who had set him upon the Work, would carry him thorough it.

Which he used oft to do, some times in one place, and sometimes in another, that so he might encourage and keep up the Worship of God in all of them. This was one cause, though not the onely cause, of his coming: nor was he obliged to declare all the causes of it.

Marginal references: Heb. in thine hand.