Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 Samuel 10:27
But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he (l) held his peace.
(l) Both to avoid disputing and also to win them by patience.
But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he (l) held his peace.
(l) Both to avoid disputing and also to win them by patience.
Verse 1 Samuel 10:27. _BROUGHT HIM NO PRESENTS_] They gave him no proofs that they acknowledged either the Divine appointment or his authority. The Arab chiefs are, to this day, when on a march or ex...
PRESENTS - The מנחה _mı̂nchāh_ was the token of homage and acknowledgment from the subject to the sovereign, and from the tributary nation to their suzerain. (See 2 Samuel 8:2, 2 Samuel 8:6; Jdg 3:17...
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...
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...
HOW... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. HE HELD HIS PEACE. he was as one that was deaf....
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...
_the children of Belial said_ CERTAIN WORTHLESS FELLOWS (see note on 1 Samuel 1:16) spoke disparagingly of him, and despised him. _and brought him no presents_ Cp. 1 Kings 10:25; 2 Chronicles 17:5. Th...
_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...
_BUT THE CHILDREN OF BELIAL SAID, HOW SHALL THIS MAN SAVE US? AND THEY DESPISED HIM, AND BROUGHT HIM NO PRESENTS. BUT HE HELD HIS PEACE._ Brought him no presents. In Eastern countries the honour of t...
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,...
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...
THE CHILDREN OF BELIAL. — More accurately, _worthless men._ (See Note on 1 Samuel 2:12.) AND THEY DESPISED HIM. — As above suggested, these malcontents were probably princes and leading men of the gre...
וּ בְנֵ֧י בְלִיַּ֣עַל אָמְר֗וּ מַה ־יֹּשִׁעֵ֨נוּ֙...
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...
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...
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,...
CHAPTER X. Belial; seditious men, perhaps of the tribe of Ephraim, (Judges xii.) or of Juda, to whom the regal power seemed to belong, Genesis xlix. (Salien) --- Presents, in testimony of their submi...
(27) But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace. Though it appeared that the general voice was with Saul, ye...
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...
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...
BUT THE CHILDREN OF BELIAL SAID,.... Wicked, dissolute, lawless persons; men without a yoke, as the word signifies, who did not care to be under the yoke of government, at least not under the yoke of...
But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace. Ver. 27. _But the children of Belial._] Aweless, lawless, yokel...
_But the children of Belial said_, &c. Some wicked men, who hated all government, and being, it is probable, men of some rank and quality, were proud, and despised a person of such a mean family. _How...
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...
But the children of Belial, the worthless, vain rabble, SAID, HOW SHALL THIS MAN SAVE US? They questioned his fitness for the office and declared their unwillingness to submit to his authority. AND TH...
SAUL CHOSEN KING BY LOT...
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...
HE HELD HIS PEACE: Or, he was, as though he had been deaf...
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...
THIS MAN; so mean a person, and of the weakest of all the tribes. BROUGHT HIM NO PRESENTS; as subjects in those times and places used to do to their kings; see 1 KINGS 10:25 2 CHRONICLES 17:5 MATTHEW...
1 Samuel 10:27 rebels H1121 H1100 said H559 (H8804) save H3467 (H8686) despised H959 (H8799) brought...
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...
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...
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...
_But the children of Belial said._ THE SONS OF BELIAL The word Belial is found but once in the New Testament (2 Corinthians 6:15). In the Hebrew of the Old Testament it is found twenty-seven times. I...
_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...
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...
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
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...
1 Kings 10:25; 1 Kings 4:21; 1 Samuel 11:12; 1 Samuel 2:12;...
No presents — As subjects in those times used to do to their kings. This was an evidence both of his humility, and the mercifulness of his disposition. So Christ held his peace, in the day of his pati...