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Verse 1 Samuel 10:26. _A BAND OF MEN_] Not a _military band_, as I
imagine, but some _secret friends_, or _companions_, who were
personally attached to him. Others think that all the men fit to bear...
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A BAND OF MEN - Rather, “the host,” “men of valor,” There
seems to be an opposition intended between the “valiant men” and
the “children of Belial” (1 Samuel 10:27)....
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3. THE OPEN ACCLAMATION OF SAUL AS KING
CHAPTER 10:17-27
_ 1. The lot at Mizpeh (1 Samuel 10:17)_
2. The acclamation of the King (1 Samuel 10:22)
Samuel called once more a national gathering at Miz...
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SAUL ELECTED KING BY LOT. Continues Deuteronomic narrative, sequel to
1 Samuel 8 (see above).
1 SAMUEL 10:17 A (TO OVER US). Sequel to 1 Samuel 8 f. Samuel calls
an assembly unto Yahweh to Mizpah, _i...
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TOUCHED- moved....
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The Public election of Saul as King
The thread of the narrative in ch. 8, which has been temporarily
dropped in order to give an account of the circumstances by which
Samuel was privately made acquai...
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_there went with him a band of men_ Or, THE VALIANT MEN. Saul was
escorted home by those who accepted him as the choice of Jehovah, but...
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_Saul Acclaimed by the People._ 1 Samuel 10:17-27
17 And Samuel called the people together unto the Lord _to_ Mizpeh;
18 And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God of
Israel, I br...
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_AND SAUL ALSO WENT HOME TO GIBEAH; AND THERE WENT WITH HIM A BAND OF
MEN, WHOSE HEARTS GOD HAD TOUCHED._ SAUL ALSO WENT HOME TO GIBEAH.
This was his place of residence (see the note at Judges 20:20),...
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See on 1 Samuel 9:1. There are clearly two accounts of the institution
of the kingship. In 1 Samuel 8, the wish for a king is regarded as a
sign of disloyalty to the real King, Jehovah, and, as such,...
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 10
SAMUEL *ANOINTS SAUL
V1 Then Samuel took a jar of oil and poured the oil over Saul’s
head. He kissed Saul. He said, ‘The *Lord has *anoint...
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AND SAUL ALSO WENT HOME TO GIBEAH. — Saul departed for the present
to his own home. We may conclude that his fellow citizens, proud of
the honour conferred on one of themselves, were among his earlies...
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וְ גַ֨ם ־שָׁא֔וּל הָלַ֥ךְ לְ בֵיתֹ֖ו
גִּבְעָ֑
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CHAPTER XIV.
_ SAUL CHOSEN KING_
1 Samuel 10:17.
WHEN first the desire to have a king came to a height with the people,
they had the grace to go to Samuel, and endeavour to arrange the
matter throug...
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THE PEOPLE HAVE THEIR DESIRE
1 Samuel 10:14
Samuel dealt faithfully with the people, reminding them once more of
their guilty mistake in demanding a king; and indeed they came to rue
their choice. Bu...
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On the morning of the day following Saul's meeting with and eating
with Samuel, Samuel told him of his election by God to be king of the
nation. This communication was made when they were quite alone,...
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_Touched; to consider the appointment of Saul, as his act. Afterwards
they retired home, and the new king returned to his wonted
occupations. The army here denotes part of the assembly, as the young
m...
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(23) And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the
people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and
upward. (24) And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him who...
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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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_HEARTS DIVINELY TOUCHED_
‘A band of men, whose hearts God had touched.’
1 Samuel 10:26
An odd mixture of good and evil was Saul, of strength and weakness,
of courage and cowardice, of diffidence a...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 8, 9, AND 10.
But faith is not transmitted by succession. Samuel could not make
prophets of his sons. They were no better as judges than Eli's sons
had been a...
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AND SAUL ALSO WENT HOME TO GIBEAH,.... His native place, where was his
father's house, to which he retired; where were no royal palace, or
princely court, nor any of the ensigns of kingly majesty; and...
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_Saul went home to Gibeah_ Not being actually inaugurated into his
kingdom, he thought fit to retire to his former habitation, and to
live privately till he had an occasion to show himself in a more
i...
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1 Samuel anoynteth Saul.
2 Hee confirmeth him by prediction of three signes.
9 Sauls heart is changed, and he prophecieth.
14 He concealeth the matter of the kingdome from his vncle.
17 Saul is ch...
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And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of
men whose hearts God had touched, of their own free will they
constituted themselves his body-guard, his escort of honor. They
repr...
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SAUL CHOSEN KING BY LOT...
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No one else was present when Samuel anointed Saul. This contrasts with
David's anointing in Chapter 16:3, "in the midst of his brethren,"
then by "the men of Judah" in 2 Samuel 2:4; and later by the e...
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17-27 Samuel tells the people, Ye have this day rejected your God. So
little fond was Saul now of that power, which soon after, when he
possessed it, he could not think of parting with, that he hid h...
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TO GIBEAH: not being actually inaugurated into his kingdom, he thought
fit to retire to his former habitation, and to live privately till he
had an occasion to show himself in a more public and illust...
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1 Samuel 10:26 Saul H7586 went H1980 (H8804) home H1004 Gibeah H1390
valiant H2428 went H3212 (H8799) hearts...
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SAUL RETURNS HOME AND BIDES HIS TIME, FINALLY PROVING HIMSELF BY
DEFEATING THE AMMONITES AND AS A RESULT BEING ‘MADE KING BEFORE
YHWH' (1 SAMUEL 10:26 TO 1 SAMUEL 11:15).
Saul now returned home accomp...
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CONTENTS: Saul annointed king.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Samuel, Saul, his uncle.
CONCLUSION: Whom God calls He qualifies. When God works in us by His
Spirit, it serves to confirm faith and furn...
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1 Samuel 10:1. _Captain._ This refers to his command, as a fighting
captain. The title of king was superior to that of _na_g _id,_ or
captain.
1 Samuel 10:3. _To Bethel._ The people would, and did wor...
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_And there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched._
But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us.
PUBLIC OPINION IN REFERENCE TO THE NEW KING
I. The sympathy of Sa...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 10:26 GIBEAH (“hill”), Saul’s home,
was about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Jerusalem. It had a panoramic view
and a north-south road nearby. This is probably the same as
“Gibeat...
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1 Samuel 10:22. “THEY INQUIRED OF THE LORD … AND THE LORD
ANSWERED.” “The inquiry was made through the high priest, by means
of the Urim and Thummim. There can be no doubt that in a gathering of
the p...
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EXPOSITION
PUBLIC SELECTION OF SAUL AS KING (1 Samuel 10:17-9).
1 SAMUEL 10:17
SAMUEL CALLED THE PEOPLE TOGETHER UNTO JEHOVAH TO MIZPEH. For the
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Samuel took a vial of oil, and he poured it over Saul, over his head,
and he kissed him, and he said, Is it not because the Lord has
anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance? Now when you depa...
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1 Samuel 11:4; 1 Samuel 15:34; 2 Samuel 21:6; Acts 13:48; Acts 7:10;...
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Went home — Not being actually inaugurated into his kingdom, he
thought fit to retire to his former habitation, and to live privately
'till he had an occasion to shew himself in a more illustrious man...