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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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OBEY. hearken to.
EVIL. the evil. Hebrew. _ra`a`._ App-44....
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Saul's disobedience and its penalty
11. _It repenteth me_ "God's repentance is the change of His
dispensation." In the language of the O. T. God is said to repent when
a change in the character and co...
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_Samuel Delivers the Lord's Message of Condemnation. 1 Samuel
15:10-23_
10 Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel, saying.
11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul _to be_ king: for he is
turne...
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_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....
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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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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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DIDST FLY UPON THE SPOIL. — The expression used evidently includes
the idea of greedy eagerness, as though Samuel detected a spirit of
grasping covetousness at the bottom of this disobedient act of
Sa...
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וְ לָ֥מָּה לֹא ־שָׁמַ֖עְתָּ בְּ קֹ֣ול
יְהוָ֑ה
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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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CHAPTER XXIII.
_ DAVID'S EARLY LIFE*_
(* A few paragraphs on the Life of David are reproduced from the
author's book “David, King of Israel.")
1 Samuel 15:14.
BEFORE we enter at large into the inc...
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SHALLOW REPENTANCE UNAVAILING
1 Samuel 15:17
Samuel was deeply moved when he heard of Saul's failure, “and he
cried unto the Lord all night.” Thus he was prepared to accost the
sinful king. Mr. Finne...
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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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(13) And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou
of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD. (14) And
Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in m...
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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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WHEREFORE THEN DIDST THOU NOT OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD,.... Who had
made him king, and sent him on this errand, and gave him such plain
directions, and such strong orders to make an entire consumpti...
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Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst
fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
Ver. 19. Wherefore then didst thou … fly upon the spoil?] As a
hungry...
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_The Lord sent thee on a journey_ So easy was the service, and so
certain the success, that it was rather to be called a journey than a
war. _Wherefore didst thou not obey the voice of the Lord?_ The...
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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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Wherefore, then, after this plain command, DIDST THOU NOT OBEY THE
VOICE OF THE LORD, BUT DIDST FLY UPON THE SPOIL, in eager greed, in
passionate craving, AND DIDST EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD?...
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Samuel's Reproof...
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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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10-23 Repentance in God is not a change of mind, as it is in us, but
a change of method. The change was in Saul; "He is turned back from
following me." Hereby he made God his enemy. Samuel spent a wh...
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Who cannot be deceived by thy fair professions of religion, but knows
very well that thou didst not seek sacrifices for God, but prey for
thyself....
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SAMUEL SEEKS SAUL OUT IN ORDER TO GIVE HIM A STERN REBUKE AND DECLARE
THAT YHWH HAS WITHDRAWN FROM HIM HIS SUPPORT (1 SAMUEL 15:12).
We do not know for sure where Samuel was at this time although the...
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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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_It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king._
SAUL REJECTED
The story is graphic and pathetic. This is Saul’s victory and also
his defeat. Our defeats are often wrapped up in our victories. S...
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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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2 Chronicles 33:2; 2 Chronicles 33:6; 2 Chronicles 36:12; 2 Timothy
4:10;...
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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...