go up before me Addressed to Saul only. The verb is in the singular. Saul is to precede Samuel as a mark of honour.

all that is in thine heart Thine inmost thoughts and aspirations; not merely about the asses, which Samuel tells him at once. May we not suppose that Saul at his plough like Joan of Arc with her flock had been brooding over the oppression of his country, and cherishing a vague desire to liberate it?

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