Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do you harm, because my soul was precious in your eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Precious, and treated as such, with care and respect. See 4 Kings i. 14., Psalm xlviii. 9., and Isaias xliii. 4.
Ignorant. Yet Saul was inexcusable, 2 Kings xxiv. 10