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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...
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SAMUEL STANDING AS APPOINTED - Rather, “as Overseer, or leader.”...
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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)...
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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...
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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;...
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_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
para...
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David takes refuge with Samuel at Ramah
18. _to Samuel_ Turning naturally for direction at this crisis to the
prophet who had anointed him, and hoping that Saul would at least
reverence the age and a...
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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...
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_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...
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_AND IT WAS TOLD SAUL, SAYING, BEHOLD, DAVID IS AT NAIOTH IN RAMAH._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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SAUL'S HATRED OF DAVID. DAVID ESCAPES TO SAMUEL
2. Until the morning] RV 'in the morning.'...
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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...
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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...
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וַ יִּשְׁלַ֨ח שָׁא֣וּל מַלְאָכִים֮ לָ
קַ֣חַת...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Saul In Ramah...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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_...
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SUCCESSIVE ATTEMPTS UPON DAVID'S LIFE FRUSTRATED BY THE LOVE OF
JONATHAN AND MICHAL, AND FINALLY BY FLIGHT (1 Samuel 19:1
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1 Corinthians 14:24; 1 Corinthians 14:25; 1 Corinthians 14:3; 1 Samuel
10:10;...
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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...