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Verse 1 Samuel 14:44. _AND SAUL ANSWERED - THOU SHALT SURELY DIE,
JONATHAN._] To save thy rash oath! So must John Baptist's head be
taken off at the desire of an impure woman, because a Herod had swor...
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7. JONATHAN'S HEROIC DEED OF FAITH
CHAPTER 14
_ 1. Jonathan's victory (1 Samuel 14:1)_
2. Saul's adjuration and Jonathan's deed (1 Samuel 14:24)
3. Saul's first altar and unanswered inquiry (1 Sam...
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The next episode strikingly illustrates the primitive religious faith
and practice of Israel. Saul proposed to make a night-attack upon the
Philistines, and asked the priest to obtain an oracle as to...
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DO SO. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean,
Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, add "unto me"....
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The consequence of Jonathan's transgression
36. _Let us draw near hither unto God_ Ahijah checks Saul's impulse,
reminding him that it was necessary first to ascertain the will of
God. Perhaps he fel...
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Saul's Ill-advised Oath. 1 Samuel 14:24-46
24 And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had
adjured the people, saying, Cursed _be_ the man that eateth _any_ food
until evening, that I...
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_AND SAUL SAID, DISPERSE YOURSELVES AMONG THE PEOPLE, AND SAY UNTO
THEM, BRING ME HITHER EVERY MAN HIS OX, AND EVERY MAN HIS SHEEP, AND
SLAY THEM HERE, AND EAT; AND SIN NOT AGAINST THE LORD IN EATING...
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JONATHAN'S EXPLOIT. THE BATTLE OF MICHMASH. A SUMMARY OF SAUL'S REIGN
3. Ahiah] RV 'Ahijah,' probably merely another form of Ahimelech (1
Samuel 21:1). Melech (king) was one of the titles of Jah or J...
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 14
V1 A young man carried Jonathan’s *armour. Jonathan was Saul’s
son. One day, Jonathan said to the young man, ‘Let us go across to
the *Phili...
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LO, I MUST DIE. — These wild and thoughtless vows are peculiarly
characteristic of this half-barbaric period. We have already observed
that the age now closing had been peculiarly the age of vows. A
s...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר שָׁא֔וּל כֹּֽה ־יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה
אֱלֹהִ֖ים וְ כֹ֣ה יֹוסִ֑ף כִּֽי
־מֹ֥ות תָּמ֖וּת יֹונָתָֽן׃...
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CHAPTER XX
_ SAUL'S WILFULNESS._
1 Samuel 14:24.
THAT Saul was now suffering in character under the influence of the
high position and great power to which he had been raised, is only too
apparent f...
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THE MAN WHO WROUGHT WITH GOD RESCUED
1 Samuel 14:36
In this case the voice of the people was the voice of God. If a man
dares to stand alone with God, he cannot be put to shame. If he says
of the Lo...
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Here we have a picture of Saul, with a part of the army about him,
remaining idle in Gibeah. His son Jonathan moved to action by his
sense of the degradation of his people, and his conviction of the
s...
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_Die. We may here admire the respect which the ancients had for an
oath, without seeking for any modification; and the blindness of Saul,
who condemns his son with as much haste as he had pronounced t...
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(24) В¶ And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had
adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food
until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of...
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We have already seen that the desire and deliberate decision of the
people for a king was a direct blow at the government of God in
Israel; but the time was come to permit the will of the people to ha...
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But faith in God is always blest; and if God has shewn the effect of
unbelief, He also shews its folly, since wherever faith is found,
there all His strength is displayed; and then it is the enemy who...
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AND SAUL ANSWERED, GOD DO SO AND MORE ALSO,.... A form of an oath
imprecating evils upon him more and greater than he chose to mention,
see the like form in Ruth 1:17, though Abarbinel thinks this is...
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And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die,
Jonathan.
Ver. 44. _And Saul answered, God do so and more also._] It appeareth
that Saul was a great swearer. _Et rationem maior...
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_Thou shalt surely die, Jonathan_ This again was most rashly spoken.
Saul, however, seems to have been influenced by a real fear of God,
and certainly is to be commended for having a greater regard to...
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1 Ionathan, vnwitting to his father, the Priest, or the people, goeth
and miraculously smiteth the Philistines garrison.
15 A diuine terrour maketh them beate themselues.
17 Saul not staying the Pri...
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Saul's Unwise Adjuration...
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The Philistines seemed content to intimidate Israel with their
tremendous show of strength, rather than to attack Saul. One man,
however, is not to be intimidated. Jonathan, in the face of Philistine...
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36-46 If God turns away our prayer, we have reason to suspect it is
for some sin harboured in our hearts, which we should find out, that
we may put it away, and put it to death. We should always first...
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From this and other like expressions of Saul s, some gather that he
was exceeding prone to the vice of swearing and cursing. THOU SHALT
SURELY DIE: strange perverseness! He who was so indulgent as to...
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1 Samuel 14:44 Saul H7586 answered H559 (H8799) God H430 so H6213
(H8799) also H3254 (H8686) surely H4191 (H8800) die H4191 (H8799)
Jonathan H3129
God - 1 Samuel 25:22; Ruth 1:17;...
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CONTINUATION OF THE DEFEAT OF THE PHILISTINES BY RAIDING THEIR
TERRITORY IS ABORTED AND JONATHAN IS NEARLY EXECUTED, AND ALL DUE TO
SAUL'S FOOLISH CURSE (1 SAMUEL 14:36).
This passage (1 Samuel 14:1)...
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1 Samuel 14
These were evil days for the people of Israel. But it was in these
dark days that Jonathan shone so famous. It is yet true that
difficulties prove our mettle, and that the greater the har...
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CONTENTS: Jonathan's great victory over the Philistines.
CHARACTERS: God, Jonathan, armor-bearer, Saul, Ahiah, Abner.
CONCLUSION: Let this strengthen the weak and encourage the timid, that
no matter...
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1 Samuel 14:2. _Under a pomegranate tree._ רמן _Rimmon,_ a rock in
the tribe of Judah. Joshua 15:32; Judges 20:47. This reading agrees
best with the position of Saul's army, in a place of safety.
1 S...
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_And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured
the people._
GREAT ISSUES HANG ON A KING’S RASH WORD
One little sentence, spoken in a moment of passion by King Henry the
Second...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 14:1 This chapter focuses on Saul’s son
Jonathan, who will become a friend of David. Jonathan’s act of trust
in this chapter is sandwiched between two examples of Saul’s
diso...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES
1 Samuel 14:18. “BRING HITHER THE ARK OF GOD.” “Many expositors,
thinking it extremely improbable that the ark had been removed from
Kirjath-jearim, where it was afterw...
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EXPOSITION
JONATHAN SMITES THE PHILISTINE GAR-BISON (1 Samuel 14:1).
1 SAMUEL 14:1
NOW IT CAME TO PASS UPON A DAY. Literally, "And there was a day, and
Jonathan," etc.; or, as we should say, And it...
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Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to
the young man that bear his armour, Come, and let us go over to the
Philistines' garrison on the other side. But he did not tell h...
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1 Samuel 14:39; 1 Samuel 25:22; 2 Samuel 12:31; 2 Samuel 12:5; 2
Samuel 19:13; 2 Samuel 3:9; Genesis 38:24; Proverbs 25:16; Ruth 1:17...
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For thou, &c — We have no proof, that Saul did not act in this whole
affair from a real fear of God....