And Samuel said to Saul, 'Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up?' And Saul answered, 'I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do' — Samuel's reproach ('lamāh hiraggaztā-nî lehaʿalôt-nî') acknowledges the violation of his rest. Saul's confession ('ṯar laqqōnî meʾōd kî-pᵉlišt nilḥamim bî veʾelohim sār mimmennî') admits to divine abandonment.

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