Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
evil--not moral evil, which God cannot command (James 1:13), but what may be disagreeable and hard to us. Piety obeys God, without questioning, at all costs. See the instance defective in this, that it obeyed only so far as was agreeable to itself (1 Samuel 15:3, 1 Samuel 15:9, 1 Samuel 15:13-15, 1 Samuel 15:20-23).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Jeremiah 15:11
Jeremiah 42:2
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