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Verse 1 Samuel 28:18. _NOR EXECUTEDST HIS FIERCE WRATH UPON AMALEK_]
See 1 Samuel 15:1 and the notes there....
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7. SAUL AND THE WITCH AT ENDOR
CHAPTER 28
_ 1. David fully joined to Achish (1 Samuel 28:1)_
2. Forsaken Saul (1 Samuel 28:3)
3. The command to seek a witch (1 Samuel 28:7)
4. Saul's visit t
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1 SAMUEL 28:2 is continued by 1 Samuel 29:1; the _connexion is_ broken
by the insertion of
1 SAMUEL 28:3. SAUL AND THE WITCH OF ENDOR. This section interrupts
the connexion; moreover, it would come n...
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OBEYEDST NOT. hearkenedst not to.
WRATH. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the
judgment in consequence of it....
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_Samuel's Appearance._ 1 Samuel 28:15-25
15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me
up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make
war against me, and...
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_BECAUSE THOU OBEYEDST NOT THE VOICE OF THE LORD, NOR EXECUTEDST HIS
FIERCE WRATH UPON AMALEK, THEREFORE HATH THE LORD DONE THIS THING UNTO
THEE THIS DAY._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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SAUL AND THE WITCH OF ENDOR
1 Samuel 28:3 come from another document and interrupt the connexion,
as will be seen if the account is read without them. In order of time
their proper position is after 1...
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 28
V1 Later, the *Philistines gathered their army to fight the
*Israelites. Achish said to David, ‘You must realise that you and
your men must...
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כַּ אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹֽא ־שָׁמַ֨עְתָּ֙ בְּ
קֹ֣ול יְהו
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CHAPTER XXXIV.
_ SAUL AT ENDOR._
1 Samuel 28:3.
FOR a considerable time Saul had been drifting along like a crippled
vessel at sea, a melancholy example of a man forsaken of God. But as
his decisive...
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LISTENING TO HIS OWN DOOM
1 Samuel 28:15
That there should be an apparition of Samuel occasions no difficulty,
for as Moses and Elijah were permitted to speak with our Lord of the
“decease” to be acc...
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It is strange how this story has been made to serve in defense of
things occult, which, as a matter of fact, it condemns. Let it be
carefully read, and it becomes perfectly patent that this woman had...
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(8) And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went,
and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he
said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and b...
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We enter now on a portion of David's history sensibly different from
what we have already had, which closed with the efforts of Jonathan to
restore matters and to attach Saul to him at least openly. J...
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Saul, as well as Israel at present, was in a still worse position,
having succour neither from God nor from the enemy. Saul is forsaken
of God. Samuel is dead; so that Israel is no longer in connectio...
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BECAUSE THOU OBEYEDST NOT THE VOICE OF THE LORD,.... At Gilgal, as
Abarbinel thinks; which is the first thing for which the kingdom was
threatened to be taken from him, 1 Samuel 13:13;
NOR EXECUTEDST...
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Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his
fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto
thee this day.
Ver. 18. _Because thou obeyedst not the voice...
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_The Lord hath rent the kingdom out of thy hand_, &c. Here the prophet
foretels that Saul should that day be stripped of the kingdom, and
that it should be given to David. Then follows what nothing bu...
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1 Achish putteth confidence in Dauid.
3 Saul hauing destroyed the witches,
4 and now in his feare forsaken of God,
7 seeketh to a witch.
9 The witch, encouraged by Saul, raiseth vp Samuel.
15 Sau...
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Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the Lord, nor executedst His
fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the Lord done this thing unto
thee this day, His judgment would now be carried out....
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THE ANSWER RECEIVED BY SAUL...
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The inevitable conflict between Israel and the Philistines arises
again, and David finds himself in an unpleasant situation Achish tells
him that he and his men must accompany Achish to fight against...
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7-19 When we go from the plain path of duty, every thing draws us
further aside, and increases our perplexity and temptation. Saul
desires the woman to bring one from the dead, with whom he wished to...
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NOR EXECUTEDST HIS FIERCE WRATH UPON AMALEK; he mentions this as an
eminent instance of his disobedience....
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1 Samuel 28:18 Because H834 obey H8085 (H8804) voice H6963 LORD H3068
execute H6213 (H8804) fierce H2740 wrath...
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SAUL CONSULTS A NECROMANCER AND SAMUEL APPEARS TO HIM (1 SAMUEL 28:3).
Having been unable to obtain any response from God, Saul, in
desperation, determined to turn to a necromancer. It would, however,...
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CONTENTS: David among Israel's enemies. Saul consults the witch.
CHARACTERS: God, David, Saul, Samuel, Achish, witch.
CONCLUSION: Seek the Lord while He may be found for there is a time
when He will...
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1 Samuel 28:4. _Shunem,_ in the tribe of Issachar, not far from mount
Hermon.
1 Samuel 28:7. _A woman that hath a familiar spirit:_ a mistress of
OB. See Deuteronomy 18:11. The LXX read _pythoness,_ a...
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_Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit._
SAUL AND THE WITCH OF ENDOR
This narrative is unlike any other in the Bible, and therefore, as
might have been expected, has received various explanati...
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_The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight
with Israel._
NIGHT PRECEDING BATTLE
As the flash of lightning reveals the hidden scenery around, so the
reception of momentous n...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 28:3 The story now shifts to King Saul’s
visit to the medium at En-dor and returns to David and the Philistines
in 1 Samuel 29:1. Saul faces overwhelming odds as the Philis
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 28:15 THEN SAMUEL SAID TO SAUL. The Bible
text assumes that the spirit raised by the medium really is Samuel. He
is called “Samuel” in vv....
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
1 Samuel 28:1. “KNOW THOU ASSUREDLY.” Some expositors regard these
words of Achish as designed to try David: others think they express
the entire confidence which the k...
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DOWNFALL AND DEATH OF SAUL (CHS. 28-31.)
THE PHILISTINES GATHER TOGETHER FOR WAR. DISTRESS OF SAUL, AND VISIT
TO THE WITCH OF...
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So it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their
armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said to
David, Know assuredly, that you shall go out to battle with...
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1 Chronicles 10:13; 1 Kings 20:42; 1 Samuel 13:9; 1 Samuel 15:23;...