Hours with the Bible : or, The Scriptures in the light of modern discovery and knowledge . early hopes of him, Saul was not the manfor a theocratic king. Yet, though forced to leave him,and thus publicly—as the recognised prophet and re-presentative of God, the true invisible King of Israel—to disown him as His viceroy, he still clung fondly tothe hope that he might yet retrace his steps. Anotheropportunity, at least, would be given him of showinghis true great Be-douin tribe ofthe Amalekites*still continuedthe hereditaryenemies of Is- -rael. At Sinai, ^-in the Wilder- ^ness wanderi
Hours with the Bible : or, The Scriptures in the light of modern discovery and knowledge . early hopes of him, Saul was not the manfor a theocratic king. Yet, though forced to leave him,and thus publicly—as the recognised prophet and re-presentative of God, the true invisible King of Israel—to disown him as His viceroy, he still clung fondly tothe hope that he might yet retrace his steps. Anotheropportunity, at least, would be given him of showinghis true great Be-douin tribe ofthe Amalekites*still continuedthe hereditaryenemies of Is- -rael. At Sinai, ^-in the Wilder- ^ness wandering, /i^and in the days ^of Gideon_, they ^had harassed and -^troubled it, and, ^^^now, under Saul, ^^*^ appear to havebeen a restlessenemy of Judah and Simeon in the south of the sword of their chief, Agag,^^ ^ had made womenchildless.^ To leave him to plunder and destroy theirbrethren would have been unworthy of Saul and theother tribes. Judah, moreover, had only lately been won ^ See vol. i. p. 351; vol. ii. pp. Agag = the Consumer or « 1 Sam. XV. An Aeab LEgypte—Mat Modern, 110 THE REJECTED OE GOD. to a hearty union with the rest of the nation, and wouldgive new life and vigour to the whole_, if not weakenedby an enemy. Samuel, therefore, once more came to Saul, command-ing him in the name of God who had anointed him asking, to undertake a sacred war against Amalek, devotingit and all it had to destruction, as accursed. Nor didSaul for a moment hesitate. Summoning the musterof all Israel, including Judah, he marched at once tothe distant southern districts. Warning the Kenites, afriendly Midianitish stock, who were at peace with theirwarlike neighbours, to separate themselves from them,he lost no time in making his attack. True to Easterntactics, he surprised Agag, now weakened by the loss ofhis Kenite allies,^ took his city, which was near Carrael,by Hebron,^ and slew, or made prisoners of the wholetribe, except a remnant
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