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1 Samuel 19:20

prophets prophesying Some common religious exercise conducted by Samuel, who is described as standing as president over the prophets, is meant by "prophesying." See on 1 Samuel 10:5. The Targum paraphrases: "They saw the company of scribes praising, and Samuel standing as instructor over them."

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See also 1 Samuel 19:20 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Samuel 19:20. _THE COMPANY OF THE PROPHETS PROPHESYING_] Employed in religious exercises. _SAMUEL - APPOINTED OVER THEM_] Being _head_ or _president_ of the school at this place. _THE SPIRI...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SAMUEL STANDING AS APPOINTED - Rather, “as Overseer, or leader.”...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    4. SAUL'S RENEWED ATTEMPT AND DAVID'S ESCAPE CHAPTER 19 _ 1. Saul and Jonathan (1 Samuel 19:1)_ 2. Saul's new attempt to kill David (1 Samuel 19:8) 3. David's escape (1 Samuel 19:11)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DAVID AT RAMAH (R). Of uncertain origin, probably late. Partly parallel to 1 Samuel 10:10 ff. David takes refuge with Samuel at Naioth in Ramah. Naioth is apparently not a proper name, but if it is no...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    COMPANY. Compare 1 Samuel 10:5. 2Ki 2:3-5. 2 Kings 5:22. College for instruction of prophets, priests having failed in their duty as teachers. Deuteronomy 17:11;...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SAUL SENT MESSENGERS TO TAKE DAVID—AND HE WENT THITHER, &C.— One intent of this prophesying of the messengers and Saul was to prevent them from seizing, and him from murdering, certainly David, and pr...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _David With Samuel._ 1 Samuel 19:18-24 18 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. 19 And it wa...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND IT WAS TOLD SAUL, SAYING, BEHOLD, DAVID IS AT NAIOTH IN RAMAH._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SAUL'S HATRED OF DAVID. DAVID ESCAPES TO SAMUEL 2. Until the morning] RV 'in the morning.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 19 SAUL TRIES TO KILL DAVID V1 Saul told his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. Jonathan liked David very much. V2 So he warned...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE COMPANY OF THE PROPHETS. — (On the general question of this company of prophets see _Excursus_ H, at the end of this Book.) The Hebrew word rendered “company” occurs only in this place, but the an...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּשְׁלַ֨ח שָׁא֣וּל מַלְאָכִים֮ לָ קַ֣חַת...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXVI. _ SAUL'S FURTHER EFFORTS AGAINST DAVID._ 1 Samuel 19:1. ANEW Stage of his wicked passion is now reached by Saul; he communes with his servants, and even with his son, with a view to th...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SAUL CHECKED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD 1 Samuel 19:13 David hastened to apprise Samuel of the turn that events were taking, and of his grave suspicions that Saul was attempting on his life. For greater se...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Saul's enmity toward David grew, while the friendship between Jonathan and David increased. Saul did all in his power to set both Jonathan and the people against David. He even went so far as to charg...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing (h) [as] appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Prophesying. That is, singing praises to God by a divine impulse. God was pleased on this occasion that both Saul's messengers and himself should experience the like impulse, that he might understand,...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Now that we have heard the prophet's judgment of king Saul, there follows next the choice of Jehovah. The chapter gives us in a very striking manner the manifest sentence of death on all the thoughts...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18 AND 19. But when Christ makes Himself known, the remnant (which Jonathan represented) loves Him as his own soul, and this beloved one becomes the object of...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND SAUL SENT MESSENGERS TO TAKE DAVID,.... Notwithstanding the sacred place he was in, so bent was he upon his destruction: AND WHEN THEY SAW THE COMPANY OF THE PROPHETS PROPHESYING; or praising, as...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing [as] appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Saul sent messengers to take David_ His implacable hatred had abolished all respect and reverence for Samuel, (under whose protection David now was,) and for the college of the prophets, which was a...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Ionathan discloseth his fathers purpose to kill Dauid. 4 Hee perswadeth his father to reconciliation. 8 By reason of Dauids good successe in a new warre, Sauls malicious rage breaketh out against...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Saul sent messengers to take David; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, praising God in a state of ecstasy, AND SAMUEL STANDING AS APPOINTED OVER THEM, for he was the head o...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Saul In Ramah...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    When Saul told Jonathan and all his servants to put David to death, no sensible servant would have approved of this. Jonathan however, positively loved David and warned him of Saul's intentions. Still...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-24 Michal's stratagem to gain time till David got to a distance was allowable, but her falsehood had not even the plea of necessity to excuse it, and manifests that she was not influenced by the s...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SAUL SENT MESSENGERS TO TAKE DAVID: thus Saul's wickedness and fury increased; and he that at first used only secret practices against David, now breaks forth into open and impudent hostilities; plain...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 19:20 Saul H7586 sent H7971 (H8799) messengers H4397 take H3947 (H8800) David H1732 saw H7200 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    DAVID TAKES REFUGE WITH SAMUEL AT RAMAH AND WHEN SAUL TRIES TO TAKE HIM HE DISCOVERS THAT YHWH HAS OTHER MEANS OF PREVENTING HIM FROM DOING SO (1 SAMUEL 19:18). Recognising that Saul was seeking his l...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    1 Samuel 19:20 Prophecy, according to the notions popularly entertained of it, might be defined to be a mere prediction of future events, and the prophet one who utters such prediction. This definitio...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Saul's murderous hate pursues David. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, David, Saul, Jonathan, Michal, Samuel. CONCLUSION: God always raises up a friend for us in time of need. Envy allowed its...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Samuel 19:11. _Saul sent messengers to slay him._ The Vulgate, _lictors,_ executioners. They could not approach the bed of a princess till the morning. 1 Samuel 19:13. _Michal took an image,_ a stat...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied._ THE CONTAGIOUS INFLUENCE OF FAITHFUL PROPHESYING The prophet of former days was, in all substantial point, identical wit...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 19:1 Saul moves from trying to use the Philistines to kill David to actually ordering him killed. Jonathan brings about a reconciliation between Saul and David, but David fin...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 19:20 THEY ALSO PROPHESIED (twice in these verses) probably means that Saul’s messengers uttered words of prayer and praise to God as well as correction for each other, under...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 19:20. “PROPHETS.” “It is to be noted that we have here _prophets_ who in inspired discourse give forth their inner life, filled with the Holy Ghost, not _sons_...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SUCCESSIVE ATTEMPTS UPON DAVID'S LIFE FRUSTRATED BY THE LOVE OF JONATHAN AND MICHAL, AND FINALLY BY FLIGHT (1 Samuel 19:1

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 14:24; 1 Corinthians 14:25; 1 Corinthians 14:3; 1 Samuel 10:10;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Over them — To instruct and direct them in those holy exercises. For though they prophesied by Divine inspiration, yet they were both to prepare themselves for it before hand, and to make good improve...

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