They said, “You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man’s hand.”
Here, I. Samuel gives them a short account of the late revolution, and of the present posture of their government, by way of preface to what he had further to say to them, Sa1 12:1, Sa1 12:2. 1. For his own part, he had spent his days in their service; he began betimes to be useful among them, and had continued long so: "I have...
Commenting on 1 Samuel 12:1-5
And they said,.... One in the name of the rest, or they all cried out as one man: thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us; had done them no wrong, neither privately nor publicly, by fraud or by force: neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand; as a gift, present, or bribe, to fit your his cause.
They said, Thou hast not defrauded - Of what minister or governor can any nation under heaven say such things?