Did Saul inquire of the Lord or not? 1 Chronicles 10:14
First Chronicles 10:14 says, "He [Saul] did not seek guidance from the Lord. Therefore the Lord put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse." But 1 Samuel 28:6 says “when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him.” I.e., the verse in 1 Chronicles 10 is saying just the opposite, namely, “he [Saul] did not inquire of the Lord; therefore He killed him.” But how can both be true?
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Tim Maas
Supporter
I would say that the two passages might be harmonized by concluding that Saul DID inquire of the LORD, but consulted the medium when the lack of an immediate response from God (coupled with Saul's apparent lack of faith) did not meet Saul's expectation of how or when God should act. Saul was unwilling to wait upon God's timing. This would be consistent with Saul's earlier impatience with Samuel's delay in arriving (as described in 1 Samuel 13), leading Saul to offer sacrifices himself, which only Samuel was authorized to do, and which led to Samuel first informing Saul that God intended to take the kingdom away from him..
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