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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Samuel 10:7

When these signs are come unto thee. — When these varied circumstances have happened to thee, then be sure that the splendid and glorious life which I have foretold as thy lot will assuredly lie before thee in the immediate future. I will give thee no imperious directions by which thou art to shape thy course. Go bravely on; do well and truly whatever thy hand findeth to do, being confident that God will be with thee, and that His glorious Arm shall be thy guide along that road of honour and of peril which thou art destined to travel.

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See also 1 Samuel 10:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Samuel 10:7. _THOU DO AS OCCASION SERVE THEE_] After God has shown thee all these signs that thou art under his especial guidance, fear not to undertake any thing that belongs to thy office, f...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. THE STORY OF SAUL AND HIS ANOINTING Chapter S 9:1-10:16 _ 1. Saul the son of Kish and the lost asses (1 Samuel 9:1)_ 2. Samuel and Saul (1 Samuel 9:11) 3. Saul anointed King (1 Samuel 9:25;...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    1 SAMUEL 9:1 TO 1 SAMUEL 10:16. SAMUEL ANOINTS SAUL AS KING. (J), taken from one of the oldest narratives (see Introduction, p. 273). Note the absence of any connexion with the Deuteronomic narrative...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OCCASION SERVE THEE. thy hand shall find....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _do as occasion serve thee_ Lit. "do what thine hand shall find;" undertake boldly whatever presents itself. Cp. Judges 9:33; Ecclesiastes 9:10....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _Saul Anointed by Samuel._ 1 Samuel 10:1-8 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured _it_ upon his head, and kissed him, and said, _Is it_ not because the Lord hath anointed thee _to be_ captain ove...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND LET IT BE, WHEN THESE SIGNS ARE COME UNTO THEE, THAT THOU DO AS OCCASION SERVE THEE; FOR GOD IS WITH THEE._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    See on 1 Samuel 9:1. There are clearly two accounts of the institution of the kingship. In 1 Samuel 8, the wish for a king is regarded as a sign of disloyalty to the real King, Jehovah, and, as such,...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 10 SAMUEL *ANOINTS SAUL V1 Then Samuel took a jar of oil and poured the oil over Saul’s head. He kissed Saul. He said, ‘The *Lord has *anoint...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָיָ֗ה כִּ֥י _תָבֹ֛אנָה_† הָ אֹתֹ֥ות הָ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XIII. _ SAUL ANOINTED BY SAMUEL._ 1 Samuel 10:1. THERE is a remarkable minuteness of detail in this and other narratives in Samuel, suggesting the authenticity of the narrative, and the auth...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    ANOINTED WITH OIL AND THE SPIRIT 1 Samuel 10:1 In the gray dawn the prophet sketched to Saul the events which were to happen on that day and succeeding days. All were made known to the designated kin...

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

    On the morning of the day following Saul's meeting with and eating with Samuel, Samuel told him of his election by God to be king of the nation. This communication was made when they were quite alone,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Find. Undertake any enterprise, how difficult soever, which God may propose to thee. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (2) When thou art departed from me today, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 8, 9, AND 10. But faith is not transmitted by succession. Samuel could not make prophets of his sons. They were no better as judges than Eli's sons had been a...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND LET IT BE, WHEN THESE SIGNS ARE COME UNTO THEE,.... And are all fulfilled, especially the last: THAT THOU DO AS OCCASION SHALL SERVE THEE: as his circumstances would require, and as he in his gre...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, [that] thou do as occasion serve thee; for God [is] with thee. Ver. 7. _That thou do as occasion serve thee._] _Dispone te quantum potueris ad dece...

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

    _Do as occasion shall serve thee_ Hebrew, _Do what thy hand findeth to do;_ that is, as thou shalt have a call and opportunity. As if he had said, I cannot give thee particular directions about every...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Samuel anoynteth Saul. 2 Hee confirmeth him by prediction of three signes. 9 Sauls heart is changed, and he prophecieth. 14 He concealeth the matter of the kingdome from his vncle. 17 Saul is ch...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee. Whatever action the circumstances in Israel would suggest to the mind of Saul, that he should readily perform,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    SAUL ANOINTED BY SAMUEL...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    No one else was present when Samuel anointed Saul. This contrasts with David's anointing in Chapter 16:3, "in the midst of his brethren," then by "the men of Judah" in 2 Samuel 2:4; and later by the e...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    LET IT BE WHEN THESE SIGNS ARE COME UNTO THEE: _ Heb._ and it shall come to pass that when these signs etc. THAT THOU DO AS OCCASION SERVE THEE: _ Heb._ do for thee as thine hand shall find...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 The sacred anointing, then used, pointed at the great Messiah, or Anointed One, the King of the church, and High Priest of our profession, who was anointed with the oil of the Spirit, not by meas...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THESE SIGNS were certain evidences of God's calling of him to the kingdom, because they were all future contingencies, which none but God could infallibly know or foretell. DO AS OCCASION SHALL SERVE...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 10:7 signs H226 come H935 (H8799) do H6213 (H8798) occasion H4672 (H8799) demands H3027 God...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SAMUEL INDICATES CERTAIN SIGNS THAT SAUL WILL RECEIVE THAT WILL DEMONSTRATE THAT IT IS AS HE HAS SAID (1 SAMUEL 10:2). Matters were not just to be left there. A deliberately private anointing having t...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Saul annointed king. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Samuel, Saul, his uncle. CONCLUSION: Whom God calls He qualifies. When God works in us by His Spirit, it serves to confirm faith and furn...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Samuel 10:1. _Captain._ This refers to his command, as a fighting captain. The title of king was superior to that of _na_g _id,_ or captain. 1 Samuel 10:3. _To Bethel._ The people would, and did wor...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then Samuel took a vial of oil._ THE DISCIPLINE OF A PROMOTED LIFE Men are not usually taken from the valley of ordinary toil, and instantaneously placed, as by the flight of an angel, upon the clou...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 10:1. “THEN SAMUEL TOOK A VIAL OF OIL,” etc. “The vial is a narrow-necked vessel, from which the oil flowed in drops. The oil, we must suppose, was not of the o...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION SAUL ANOINTED TO BE KING, AND SIGNS GIVEN HIM CONVINCING HIM OF THE TRUTH OF HIS APPOINTMENT ...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Samuel took a vial of oil, and he poured it over Saul, over his head, and he kissed him, and he said, Is it not because the Lord has anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance? Now when you depa...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 20:1; Exodus 4:8; Genesis 21:20; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 45:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Thou do — Heb. do what they hand findeth to do; that is, as thou shalt have a call and opportunity. He doth not intend that he should take the kingly government upon him, before his call to it was own...

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