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Verse 1 Samuel 15:5. _SAUL CAME TO A CITY OF AMALEK_] I believe the
original should be translated, _and Saul came to the city Amalek_;
their capital being called by the _name_ of their _tribe_....
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8. WAR WITH AMALEK: SAUL'S DISOBEDIENCE AND REJECTION
CHAPTER 15
_ 1. The commission to destroy Amalek (1 Samuel 15:1)_
2. Saul's disobedience and rejection (1 Samuel 15:10)
3. Saul's confession ...
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XV. THE WAR AGAINST AMALEK; SAUL'S DISOBEDIENCE AND DEPOSITION (E). -
A section of a secondary narrative; according to the scheme adopted
here, the last section of this document was 1 Samuel 3:3 to 1...
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_a city of Amalek_ Perhaps the capital or chief settlement was simply
called _Ir-Amalek_= "the city of Amalek," as Rabbah was called _Ar_or
_Ir-Moab_= "the city of Moab" (Numbers 21:28; Numbers 22:36)...
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The Lord's Rejection of Saul, 1 Samuel 15:1-35.
_Saul Sent Against the Amalekites._ 1 Samuel 15:1-6
Samuel also said unto Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint thee _to be_
king over his people, over Isr...
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_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, (Joshu...
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15:5 valley. (a-16) Or 'torrent.' See Note, Deuteronomy 2:14 ....
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SAUL'S VICTORY OVER AMALEK. HIS DISOBEDIENCE AND REJECTION
Amalek had attacked Israel at Rephidim (Exodus 17:8) and opposed their
entrance into Canaan (Numbers 14:45 : cp. Deuteronomy 25:7; They are
m...
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A CITY OF AMALEK] RV 'the city of Amalek,' i.e. the capital....
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 15
GOD REFUSES SAUL AS KING
V1 Samuel said to Saul, ‘The *Lord sent me to *anoint you as king
over his people, the *Israelites. Now listen to...
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A CITY OF AMALEK. — Better rendered, _The city of Amalek_: no doubt,
their principal place of arms.
AND LAID WAIT IN THE VALLEY. — Better, in a torrent bed, then dry
(Arabic, “Wady”). There is a stran...
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וַ יָּבֹ֥א שָׁא֖וּל עַד ־עִ֣יר
עֲמָלֵ֑ק וַ
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CHAPTER XXI.
_ THE FINAL REJECTION OF SAUL_
1 Samuel 15:1.
HERE we find the second portion of God's indictment against Saul, and
the reason for his final rejection from the office to which he had
be...
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LEADING THE PEOPLE IN DISOBEDIENCE
1 Samuel 15:1
Several years intervened between the preceding chapter and this. The
kingdom had become strong and prosperous. It seemed as though Samuel's
sentence o...
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Saul was commissioned by Jehovah through Samuel to smite Amalek, and
it was in connection with this that the sin occurred which filled his
cup to the brim and caused him to be rejected.
His campaign...
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_Amelac. The people dwelt in tents, and removed from one place to
another. So in Ethiopia there are properly no cities, the place where
the prince encamps is deemed the capital. (Calmet) --- Torrent....
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(4) And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in
Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
(5) And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley....
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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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Nevertheless Saul is put to a final proof. Jehovah, by the mouth of
Samuel, sends him to smite Amalek, and utterly destroy them and all
that belonged to them. They were the cruel and determined enemie...
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AND SAUL CAME TO A CITY OF AMALEK,.... With his army, perhaps the
nearest city of it to the land of Israel; though some think that
Amalek was the name of the city, and was the metropolis of the nation...
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And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
Ver. 5. _And laid wait in the valley._] Or, Skirmished by the burn or
brook: declining the mountains, lest it should have proved prejud...
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_Saul came to a city of Amalek_ Or, _to the city of Amalek._ For the
metropolis of the kingdom seems to be here meant, the name of which
some have thought was Amalek. _And laid wait in the valley_ Or...
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1 Samuel sendeth Saul to destroy Amalek.
6 Saul fauoureth the Kenites.
8 Hee spareth Agag and the best of the spoile.
10 Samuel denounceth vnto Saul commending and excusing himselfe, Gods
reiection...
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God had a more solemn controversy with the Amalekites than with the
Philistines. The mere formal worship typified by the Philistines is
empty; but Amalekite "lusts of the flesh" are a deadly enemy tha...
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LAID WAIT:
Or, fought...
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1-9 The sentence of condemnation against the Amalekites had gone
forth long before, Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 25:19, but they had been
spared till they filled up the measure of their sins. We are sur...
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A CITY OF AMALEK; their chief city, where their king was, as is
probable from 1 SAMUEL 15:8. LAID WAIT, intending to draw them forth
of their city by some pretence, like that of Joshua, JOS 7, and the...
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1 Samuel 15:5 Saul H7586 came H935 (H8799) city H5892 Amalek H6002
wait H7378 (H8799) H693 ...
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SAUL'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE AMALEKITES AND HIS SACRILEGE WITH REGARD
TO THE DEVOTED THINGS (1 SAMUEL 15:4).
1 Samuel 15:4
‘ And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two
hundred mi...
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1 Samuel 15
_(with 1 Timothy 1:19)_
The story of Saul is among the saddest which Scripture anywhere
contains.
I. Notice first the singular elements of nobleness which are to be
traced in his natural...
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CONTENTS: Saul's incomplete obedience and his rejection as king.
CHARACTERS: God, Samuel, Saul, Agag.
CONCLUSION: Some judge many things in their lives, but spare one Agag
which the Lord has condemn...
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1 Samuel 15:2. _I remember what Amalek did; Numbers 17:8_; and what he
has often repeated, in the effusion of innocent blood. He joined
Midian, and the children of the east, in a bloody and unprovoked...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 15:1 The Lord finally rejects Saul as
king.
⇐ ⇔...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
1 Samuel 15:4. “TELAIM.” Most likely the same as _Telem_ (Joshua
15:21; Joshua 15:24), a city lying on the eastern border of Judah, and
therefore near the territory of t...
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FINAL REJECTION OF SAUL (1 Samuel 15:1.)
EXPOSITION
DIVINE COMMAND TO PUNISH THE AMALEKITES, AND ITS EXECUTION BY SAUL ...
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Now as we get into chapter fifteen,
Samuel came to Saul, and said, The Lord sent me to anoint you to be
king over his people, over Israel: now hearken unto the voice of the
words of the Lord (1 Samue...
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1 Samuel 15:5...
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TO OBEY IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE
1 Samuel 15:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
Disobedience is black with the frown of God. Sin is the transgression
of the Law. Disobedience is taking one's own way, as against...