1 Samuel 10:1

_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 OVER HIS INHERITANCE?_ Then Samuel took a vial of oil. This was the ancient (Judges 9:8) ceremony of investiture with the royal office among the Hebrews and other Eastern nations. But there were two unctions to the kingly office-the one in private by a prophet (1 Samuel 16:13), which was meant to be only a prophetic intimation of the person attaining that high dignity; the more public and formal inauguration (2 Samuel 2:4; 2 Samuel 5:3) was performed by the high priest, and perhaps

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 measure, but without measure, and above all the priests and princes of the Jewish church. For Saul's further satisfaction, Samuel gives him some signs which should come to pass the same day. The first place he directs him to, was the sepulchre of one of his ancestors; there he must be reminded of his own mortality, and now that he had a crown before him, must think of his grave, in which all his honour would be laid in the dust. From the time of Samuel there appears to have been schools, or places where pious young men were brought up in the knowledge of Divine things. Saul should find himself strongly moved to join with them, and should be turned into another man from what he had been. The Spir...

CHAPTER X _Samuel anoints Saul captain of the Lord's inheritance_, 1. _Instructs him concerning his return home, whom he should meet,_ _and what he should do_, 2-8. _Saul meets a company of prophets, the Spirit of the Lord comes_ _on him, and he prophesies among them_, 9-13. _He meets his uncle, and converses with him_, 14-16. _Samuel calls the people together to Mizpeh, and upbraids them_ _for having rejected the Lord as their king_, 17-19. _Lots are cast to find out the person proper to be appointed_ _king; Saul is chosen_,

IS IT NOT BECAUSE ... - Samuel answers Saul’s tacit or expressed wonder, by telling him why he did as he did. (Compare 1 Samuel 9:21.)...

EXPOSITION SAUL ANOINTED TO BE KING, AND SIGNS GIVEN HIM CONVINCING HIM OF THE TRUTH OF HIS APPOINTMENT (1 Samuel 10:1). 1 SAMUEL 10:1 A VIAL OF OIL. Hebrew, "the vial of oil," because it was that same holy oil with which the priests were anointed (Exodus 29:7). Throughout Holy Scripture the office of king appears as one most sacred, and it is the king, and not the priest, who is

THEN SAMUEL TOOK A VIAL OF OIL,.... Out of his pocket very probably, which he brought along with him on purpose for the use he made of it: this, as the Jews y say, was not the anointing oil that was in the tabernacle, which was at another and distant place, and with which only the kings of the house of David were anointed; but common oil, or, as they say, oil of balsam; and this was not an horn, but a vial, which held a small quantity, and was brittle; and they observe that Saul and Jehu, who were anointed with a vial, their reigns were short, whereas David and Solomon, who were anointed with a horn, their reigns were long; and as oil is a symbol of the gifts and graces of the Spirit, it may denote a smaller measure conferred on Saul than on David and Solomon: AND KISSED HIM; congratulating him on the dignity he was raised to, and in reverence and respect to him, because of the high off...

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; 1 Samuel 10:1) And now the Lord gives them a king according to their choice. “He should possess all the natural attractions and martial qualities which the people could desire in their king; he should reflect their religious standpoint at their best; but he should also represent their national failings and the inmost defects of their religious life; that of combining zeal for the religion of Jehovah, and

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 in the previous chapter also the inconsistencies; in 1 Samuel 7:13 the Philistines were permanently disposed of; in 1 Samuel 9:16; 1 Samuel 10:5, they are oppressing Israel and have a garrison in the heart of the country; in our present narrative we have no trace of hostility to the Monarchy. This section preserves important features of primitive religious l

A VIAL. flask. Not "the". IS IT NOT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4. Note the Jehovah relationship. Here is another _Homceoteleuton,_ which is preserved in the Septuagint and Vulgate, "the LORD [and thou shalt rule among the people of Jehovah, and thou shalt save them out of the hand of their enemies, and this shall be. sign unto thee, that] the LORD hath, &c. The eye of some ancient scribe evidently went back to the latter of these two words "the LORD" and accidentally omitted the words between them. CAPTAIN: "a" captain; not "the"....

1 Samuel 10:1. _a vial of oil_ Rather, " THE vial of oil." The word rendered _vial_(i.e. phial or flask) occurs again only in the account of the coronation of Jehu, in 2Ki 9:1; 2 Kings 9:3 (E. V. _box_). The definite article in the original may perhaps indicate the holy anointing oil used for the consecration of priests (Exodus 30:23-33). _and kissed him_ In token of reverence and homage to his royal dignity. Cp. Psalms 2:12. _Is it not because the Lord_ Lit., "Is it not the case that Jehovah" = SURELY JEHOVAH, &c. _hath anointed thee_ The rite of _anointing_(_a_) signi