_SAMUEL ALSO SAID UNTO SAUL, THE LORD SENT ME TO ANOINT THEE TO BE KING OVER HIS PEOPLE, OVER ISRAEL: NOW THEREFORE HEARKEN THOU UNTO THE VOICE OF THE WORDS OF THE LORD._ The Lord sent me to anoint thee ... now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the ... Lord. Several years had been passed in... [ Continue Reading ]
_THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, I REMEMBER THAT WHICH AMALEK DID TO ISRAEL, HOW HE LAID WAIT FOR HIM IN THE WAY, WHEN HE CAME UP FROM EGYPT._ I remember - I am reminded of what Amalek did; perhaps by the still remaining trophy or memorial erected by Moses (Exodus 17:15). AMALEK - the powerful tribe... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW GO AND SMITE AMALEK, AND UTTERLY DESTROY ALL THAT THEY HAVE, AND SPARE THEM NOT; BUT SLAY BOTH MAN AND WOMAN, INFANT AND SUCKLING, OX AND SHEEP, CAMEL AND ASS._ Now go and smite Amalek ... The Septuagint, as it were to increase the per-emptoriness of the command has introduced into the text se... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL GATHERED THE PEOPLE TOGETHER, AND NUMBERED THEM IN TELAIM, TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND FOOTMEN, AND TEN THOUSAND MEN OF JUDAH._ Saul gathered the people together. The alacrity with which he entered (see a brief notice of it, 1 Samuel 14:48) on the necessary preparations for the expedition, gave... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL CAME TO A CITY OF AMALEK, AND LAID WAIT IN THE VALLEY._ Came to a city of Amalek - probably their capital. LAID WAIT IN THE VALLEY - following the strategic policy of Joshua at Ai, (Joshua 6:1.)... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL SAID UNTO THE KENITES, GO, DEPART, GET YOU DOWN FROM AMONG THE AMALEKITES, LEST I DESTROY YOU WITH THEM: FOR YE SHEWED KINDNESS TO ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHEN THEY CAME UP OUT OF EGYPT. SO THE KENITES DEPARTED FROM AMONG THE AMALEKITES._ And Saul said unto the Kenites Go, depart, get... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL SMOTE THE AMALEKITES FROM HAVILAH UNTIL THOU COMEST TO SHUR, THAT IS OVER AGAINST EGYPT._ Saul smote the Amalekites - pursuing them over the whole territory they frequented. His own view of the proper and expedient course to follow was his rule, not the command of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE TOOK AGAG THE KING OF THE AMALEKITES ALIVE, AND UTTERLY DESTROYED ALL THE PEOPLE WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD._ Took Agag ... alive. х_ 'AGAG_ (H90), evidently a reduplicate variety of the Egyptian Hak, ruler (see the note at Numbers 21:33)]. This was the common title of the Amalekite kings.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT SAUL AND THE PEOPLE SPARED AGAG, AND THE BEST OF THE SHEEP, AND OF THE OXEN, AND OF THE FATLINGS, AND THE LAMBS, AND ALL THAT WAS GOOD, AND WOULD NOT UTTERLY DESTROY THEM: BUT EVERY THING THAT WAS VILE AND REFUSE, THAT THEY DESTROYED UTTERLY._ And of the fatlings, х_ WªHAMISHNIYM_ (H4932)]. Th... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN CAME THE WORD OF THE LORD UNTO SAMUEL, SAYING,_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_IT REPENTETH ME THAT I HAVE SET UP SAUL TO BE KING: FOR HE IS TURNED BACK FROM FOLLOWING ME, AND HATH NOT PERFORMED MY COMMANDMENTS. AND IT GRIEVED SAMUEL; AND HE CRIED UNTO THE LORD ALL NIGHT._ It repenteth me that I have set up Saul. Repentance is attributed in Scripture to the Divine Being when... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN SAMUEL ROSE EARLY TO MEET SAUL IN THE MORNING, IT WAS TOLD SAMUEL, SAYING, SAUL CAME TO CARMEL, AND, BEHOLD, HE SET HIM UP A PLACE, AND IS GONE ABOUT, AND PASSED ON, AND GONE DOWN TO GILGAL._ Saul same to Carmel. In the Alexandrian version of the Septuagint it is said that Saul traveled i... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAMUEL CAME TO SAUL: AND SAUL SAID UNTO HIM, BLESSED BE THOU OF THE LORD: I HAVE PERFORMED THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD._ Saul said ... I have performed the commandment of the Lord. Saul was either blinded by a partial and delusive self-love, or he was, in his declaration to Samuel, acting the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAMUEL SAID, WHAT MEANETH THEN THIS BLEATING OF THE SHEEP IN MINE EARS, AND THE LOWING OF THE OXEN WHICH I HEAR?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAMUEL SAID, WHEN THOU WAST LITTLE IN THINE OWN SIGHT, WAST THOU NOT MADE THE HEAD OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, AND THE LORD ANOINTED THEE KING OVER ISRAEL?_ When thou wast little in thine own sight ... Samuel saw the real state of the case, and, in discharge of the commission he had received befo... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SENT THEE ON A JOURNEY, AND SAID, GO AND UTTERLY DESTROY THE SINNERS THE AMALEKITES, AND FIGHT AGAINST THEM UNTIL THEY BE CONSUMED._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAMUEL SAID, HATH THE LORD AS GREAT DELIGHT IN BURNT OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES, AS IN OBEYING THE VOICE OF THE LORD? BEHOLD, TO OBEY IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE, AND TO HEARKEN THAN THE FAT OF RAMS._ Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings ... Samuel must not be regarded as in any way di... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR REBELLION IS AS THE SIN OF WITCHCRAFT, AND STUBBORNNESS IS AS INIQUITY AND IDOLATRY. BECAUSE THOU HAST REJECTED THE WORD OF THE LORD, HE HATH ALSO REJECTED THEE FROM BEING KING._ Rebellion is as ... witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Assuming that there were teraphim in... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL SAID UNTO SAMUEL, I HAVE SINNED: FOR I HAVE TRANSGRESSED THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD, AND THY WORDS: BECAUSE I FEARED THE PEOPLE, AND OBEYED THEIR VOICE._ I have sinned ... because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. This was a different reason from the former he had assigned. It... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THEREFORE, I PRAY THEE, PARDON MY SIN, AND TURN AGAIN WITH ME, THAT I MAY WORSHIP THE LORD._ Turn again with me, that I may worship the Lord. The erring but proud and obstinate monarch was not humbled. He was conscience-smitten for the moment; but his confession proceeded not from sincere repe... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAMUEL SAID UNTO SAUL, I WILL NOT RETURN WITH THEE: FOR THOU HAST REJECTED THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND THE LORD HATH REJECTED THEE FROM BEING KING OVER ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AS SAMUEL TURNED ABOUT TO GO AWAY, HE LAID HOLD UPON THE SKIRT OF HIS MANTLE, AND IT RENT._ He laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, х_ Mª`IYLOW_ (H4598)] - his upper tunic, official robe-in a humble and supplicating manner (cf. Isaiah 4:1; Zechariah 8:23). The verses that precede and follow... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAMUEL SAID UNTO HIM, THE LORD HATH RENT THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL FROM THEE THIS DAY, AND HATH GIVEN IT TO A NEIGHBOUR OF THINE, THAT IS BETTER THAN THOU._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALSO THE STRENGTH OF ISRAEL WILL NOT LIE NOR REPENT: FOR HE IS NOT A MAN, THAT HE SHOULD REPENT._ The Strength of Israel will not lie, х_ NEETSACH_ (H5331) _ YISRAA'EEL_ (H3478)] - the Glory of Israel, the Object of Israel's confidence, He that gives victory to Israel (cf. 1 Chronicles 29:11),... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN HE SAID, I HAVE SINNED: YET HONOUR ME NOW, I PRAY THEE, BEFORE THE ELDERS OF MY PEOPLE, AND BEFORE ISRAEL, AND TURN AGAIN WITH ME, THAT I MAY WORSHIP THE LORD THY GOD._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO SAMUEL TURNED AGAIN AFTER SAUL; AND SAUL WORSHIPPED THE LORD._ _ SO SAMUEL TURNED AGAIN AFTER SAUL; AND SAUL WORSHIPPED THE LORD._ Samuel turned again after Saul - not to worship along with him, but, first, that the people might have no ground, on pretence of Saul's rejection, to withdraw their... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAID SAMUEL, BRING YE HITHER TO ME AGAG THE KING OF THE AMALEKITES. AND AGAG CAME UNTO HIM DELICATELY. AND AGAG SAID, SURELY THE BITTERNESS OF DEATH IS PAST._ Agag came ... delicately - pliantly, or cheerfully, since he had gained the favour and protection of the king. х_ MA`ªDANOT_ (H4574),... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAMUEL SAID, AS THY SWORD HATH MADE WOMEN CHILDLESS, SO SHALL THY MOTHER BE CHILDLESS AMONG WOMEN. AND SAMUEL HEWED AGAG IN PIECES BEFORE THE LORD IN GILGAL._ Samuel hewed Agag. This cruel tyrant met the retribution of a righteous Providence. Never has it been unusual for great or official per... [ Continue Reading ]