1 Samuel 14:1
A DAY: i.e.. certain day.... [ Continue Reading ]
A DAY: i.e.. certain day.... [ Continue Reading ]
A POMEGRANATE TREE. the pomegranate tree: i.e. the well-known one. MIGRON. North of Gilgal. MEN. Heb, _'ish.App-14._... [ Continue Reading ]
AHIAH (= brother or friend of Jehovah). As Ahimelech (brother or friend of the king) was also the son of _Ahitub,_ therefore Ahiah and Ahimelech were brothers, and the latter succeeded the former (1 Samuel 22:11). I-chabod's. Compare 1 Samuel 4:21. THE LORD'S. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4. WEARING AN... [ Continue Reading ]
SHARP ROCK. a crag. Hebrew. _sela_ '. See notes on Exodus 17:6; Psalms 18:1; Psalms 18:2. AND. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, omit this "and". BOZEZ. Shining. SENEH. Sharp, or pointed. Hebrew. thorn.... [ Continue Reading ]
WAS SITUATE. Hebrew. _mazuk,_ only here, and 1 Samuel 2:8 the sharp crag, or pillar of 1 Samuel 14:4. MICHMASH. Nine miles from Jerusalem. GIBEAH. - Geba.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD (JEHOVAH) WILL WORK. Note the language of faith. Compare 2 Chronicles 14:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
behold. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
TARRY. keep quiet.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAND. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "hands ".... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HEBREWS. Compare 1 Samuel 14:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHEW YOU. THING. tell you something.... [ Continue Reading ]
ACRE. Hebrew. furrow, or. furrow's length. The Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6) is supplied, but the words "in. day" might be added for completeness at end of verse. This is the standard measure throughout the Turkish empire, called. _deunum. 40 arshuns._... [ Continue Reading ]
HOST. camp. TREMBLED. were panic-stricken. Compare 2 Samuel 5:24; 2 Kings 7:6; 2 Kings 19:7. A VERY GREAT TREMBLING. a preternatural trembling. Hebrew. trembling from _Elohim_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WENT ON BEATING DOWN, &c. Hebrew hither and thither.. supposed _Ellipsis_ is unnecessarily supplied. Read "melted away hither and thither", with Septuagint and Syriac.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ARK OF GOD. The word rendered "bring" _(nayash)_ inappropriate for the Ark, which was at Kirjath-jearim (Judges 20:27, and compare 2 Samuel 11:11; 2 Samuel 15:24). The Septuagint reads "the ephod, for he bare the ephod at that time before Israel". Compare 1 Samuel 14:3. The context shows that in... [ Continue Reading ]
TALKED: i.e. concerning the inquiry proposed. WITHDRAW: i.e. from the ephod. Stop! HAND. Some codices, with three early printed editions, and Septuagint, read "hands".... [ Continue Reading ]
ASSEMBLED THEMSELVES. were assembled (by proclamation). EVERY MAN'S. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HEBREWS. Called so in distinction from the foreigners among whom they lived; referring to language rather than nationality. Compare 1 Samuel 14:11. turned. Septuagint and Vulgate read "turned round".... [ Continue Reading ]
MOUNT. hill country of.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD (JEHOVAH) SAVED: according to Jonathan's faith. UNTO. Some codices, with Aramaean and Vulgate, read "as far as". BETH-AVEN. The Septuagint adds: "and all the people with Saul were about 10,000 men: and the battle extended itself to every city in the mount Ephraim. And Saul committed. grea... [ Continue Reading ]
FOOD. Hebrew "bread", put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species), App-6, for all kinds of food.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GROUND. Hebrew "the face (i.e. surface) of the ground". Figure of speech _Pleonasm._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._... [ Continue Reading ]
AN HONEYCOMB. The Hebrew _ya'ar_ never means honeycomb, but "a wood". It is rendered "forest" thirty-eight times, "wood" nineteen times, "honey-comb" only here and Song of Solomon 5:15... [ Continue Reading ]
STRAITLY. strictly. FAINT. weary.... [ Continue Reading ]
LAND. people. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
SIN. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44. TRANSGRESSED. dealt treacherously. THIS DAY. Septuagint reads "here".... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS OX WITH HIM. Septuagint reads "what was in his hand".... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Jehovah. Punctuate thus: "Saul said unto Jehovah: `O God of Israel' ", &c. GIVE. PERFECT LOT. Give perfections: i.e. _Thummim._ See Exodus 28:30. There is evidently. _Homceoteleuton_ (App-6) here. The scribes, having written the word "Israel", went forward to the word "Israel "a line or tw... [ Continue Reading ]
LO. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
DO SO. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, add "unto me".... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT ONE HAIR, &c. Figure of speech _Parcemia._ App-6. RESCUED. Hebrew pieta. redeemed. See note on Exodus 6:6 with Exodus 13:13. Perhaps. victim was offered in his stead.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6) in verses: 1 Samuel 14:47. CHILDREN. sons. HE VEXED THEM. he put them to the worse. But Septuagint reads "he was victorious".... [ Continue Reading ]
AN HOST. Hebrew "power". Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, put for the army which manifested the power. Or, it may be rendered "he wrought mightily".... [ Continue Reading ]
ISHUI. Called Abinadab in 1 Samuel 31:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
KISH WAS THE FATHER OF SAUL. For the difficulties of this genealogy, see note on 1 Chronicles 8:33.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN. Hebrew. _'ish.App-14._ VALIANT MAN. Hebrew son of valour. HE TOOK HIM. As Samuel had said (1 Samuel 8:11; 1 Samuel 8:16).... [ Continue Reading ]