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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 10:26

Verse 1 Samuel 10:26. A band of men] Not a military band, as I imagine, but some secret friends, or companions, who were personally attached to him. Others think that all the men fit to bear arms are intended; but this seems inconsistent with the life that Saul led for some time afterwards; for he appears to have gone into his agricultural concerns, and waited for a call from the Divine providence. See 1 Samuel 11:5.

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See also 1 Samuel 10:26 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    A BAND OF MEN - Rather, “the host,” “men of valor,” There seems to be an opposition intended between the “valiant men” and the “children of Belial” (1 Samuel 10:27)....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THE OPEN ACCLAMATION OF SAUL AS KING CHAPTER 10:17-27 _ 1. The lot at Mizpeh (1 Samuel 10:17)_ 2. The acclamation of the King (1 Samuel 10:22) Samuel called once more a national gathering at Miz...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    SAUL ELECTED KING BY LOT. Continues Deuteronomic narrative, sequel to 1 Samuel 8 (see above). 1 SAMUEL 10:17 A (TO OVER US). Sequel to 1 Samuel 8 f. Samuel calls an assembly unto Yahweh to Mizpah, _i...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TOUCHED- moved....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Public election of Saul as King The thread of the narrative in ch. 8, which has been temporarily dropped in order to give an account of the circumstances by which Samuel was privately made acquai...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _there went with him a band of men_ Or, THE VALIANT MEN. Saul was escorted home by those who accepted him as the choice of Jehovah, but...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _Saul Acclaimed by the People._ 1 Samuel 10:17-27 17 And Samuel called the people together unto the Lord _to_ Mizpeh; 18 And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I br...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND SAUL ALSO WENT HOME TO GIBEAH; AND THERE WENT WITH HIM A BAND OF MEN, WHOSE HEARTS GOD HAD TOUCHED._ SAUL ALSO WENT HOME TO GIBEAH. This was his place of residence (see the note at Judges 20:20),...

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND SAUL ALSO WENT HOME TO GIBEAH. — Saul departed for the present to his own home. We may conclude that his fellow citizens, proud of the honour conferred on one of themselves, were among his earlies...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ גַ֨ם ־שָׁא֔וּל הָלַ֥ךְ לְ בֵיתֹ֖ו גִּבְעָ֑

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XIV. _ SAUL CHOSEN KING_ 1 Samuel 10:17. WHEN first the desire to have a king came to a height with the people, they had the grace to go to Samuel, and endeavour to arrange the matter throug...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE PEOPLE HAVE THEIR DESIRE 1 Samuel 10:14 Samuel dealt faithfully with the people, reminding them once more of their guilty mistake in demanding a king; and indeed they came to rue their choice. Bu...

  • 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

    _Touched; to consider the appointment of Saul, as his act. Afterwards they retired home, and the new king returned to his wonted occupations. The army here denotes part of the assembly, as the young m...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (23) And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward. (24) And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him who...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _HEARTS DIVINELY TOUCHED_ ‘A band of men, whose hearts God had touched.’ 1 Samuel 10:26 An odd mixture of good and evil was Saul, of strength and weakness, of courage and cowardice, of diffidence a...

  • 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 SAUL ALSO WENT HOME TO GIBEAH,.... His native place, where was his father's house, to which he retired; where were no royal palace, or princely court, nor any of the ensigns of kingly majesty; and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched._ Ver. 26. _A band of men._] _Lateranes voluntarii,_ a royal guard to attend and conduct him on...

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

    _Saul went home to Gibeah_ Not being actually inaugurated into his kingdom, he thought fit to retire to his former habitation, and to live privately till he had an occasion to show himself in a more i...

  • 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 Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men whose hearts God had touched, of their own free will they constituted themselves his body-guard, his escort of honor. They repr...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    SAUL CHOSEN KING BY LOT...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    17-27 Samuel tells the people, Ye have this day rejected your God. So little fond was Saul now of that power, which soon after, when he possessed it, he could not think of parting with, that he hid h...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TO GIBEAH: not being actually inaugurated into his kingdom, he thought fit to retire to his former habitation, and to live privately till he had an occasion to show himself in a more public and illust...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 10:26 Saul H7586 went H1980 (H8804) home H1004 Gibeah H1390 valiant H2428 went H3212 (H8799) hearts...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SAUL RETURNS HOME AND BIDES HIS TIME, FINALLY PROVING HIMSELF BY DEFEATING THE AMMONITES AND AS A RESULT BEING ‘MADE KING BEFORE YHWH' (1 SAMUEL 10:26 TO 1 SAMUEL 11:15). Saul now returned home accomp...

  • 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

    _And there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched._ But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us. PUBLIC OPINION IN REFERENCE TO THE NEW KING I. The sympathy of Sa...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 10:26 GIBEAH (“hill”), Saul’s home, was about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Jerusalem. It had a panoramic view and a north-south road nearby. This is probably the same as “Gibeat...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    1 Samuel 10:22. “THEY INQUIRED OF THE LORD … AND THE LORD ANSWERED.” “The inquiry was made through the high priest, by means of the Urim and Thummim. There can be no doubt that in a gathering of the p...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PUBLIC SELECTION OF SAUL AS KING (1 Samuel 10:17-9). 1 SAMUEL 10:17 SAMUEL CALLED THE PEOPLE TOGETHER UNTO JEHOVAH TO MIZPEH. For the

  • 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

    1 Samuel 11:4; 1 Samuel 15:34; 2 Samuel 21:6; Acts 13:48; Acts 7:10;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Went home — Not being actually inaugurated into his kingdom, he thought fit to retire to his former habitation, and to live privately 'till he had an occasion to shew himself in a more illustrious man...

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