1 Samuel 10:24

_AND SAID UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, I BROUGHT UP ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT, AND DELIVERED YOU OUT OF THE HAND OF THE EGYPTIANS, AND OUT OF THE HAND OF ALL KINGDOMS, AND OF THEM THAT OPPRESSED YOU:_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

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 himself. It is good to be conscious of our unworthiness and insufficiency for the services to which we are called; but men should not go into the contrary extreme, by refusing the employments to which the Lord and the church call them. The greater part of the people treated the matter with indifference. Saul modestly went home to his own house, but was attended by a band of men whose hearts God disposed to support his authority. If the heart bend at any time the right way, it is because He has touched it. One touch is enough when it is Divine. Others despised him. Thus differently are men affected to our exalted Redeemer. There is a remnant who submit to him, and follow him wherever he goes;...

Verse 1 Samuel 10:24. _GOD SAVE THE KING._] יחי המלך There is no such word here; no, nor in the whole Bible; nor is it countenanced by any of the _versions_. The words which we thus translate here and elsewhere are simply _yechi hammelech_, "May the king live; " and so all the _versions_, the _Targum_ excepted, which says, _May the king_ _prosper_! The French _Vive le roi_! is a proper version of the Hebrew....

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 reason why Mizpah (so the name should be spelt) was chosen as the place of meeting see 1 Samuel 7:15. UNTO JEHOVAH. Because in some way the Divine presence there was indicated; possibly by the high priest having been summoned thither with the Urim and Thummim. 1 SAMUEL 10:18...

AND SAMUEL SAID TO ALL THE PEOPLE, SEE YE HIM WHOM THE LORD HATH CHOSEN,.... For the choice being made by lot, the disposal of which is of the Lord, it is properly attributed to him, and the people could not object to it, but must allow it was the Lord's doing. Eupolemus k, an Heathen writer, says, that Saul was made king by Samuel by the counsel or will of God; and Samuel appeals to their eyes for the goodness of the choice, a better could not have been made: THAT THERE IS NONE LIKE HIM AMONG THE PEOPLE? so graceful, so stately, so prince like and majestic; they wanted to have a king like such the nations had; and Saul was such an one, had all the outward appearance of grandeur that could be wished for, and which in other nations recommended persons to the imperial dignity: AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHOUTED; made a general ado: AND SAID, GOD SAVE THE KING; or "let the king live" l; they own...

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 Mizpeh. The lot is now to be cast. But before this is done the Lord through Samuel reminds them once more of their serious mistake: “And ye have this day rejected your God, who Himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto Him, Nay but set a king over us.” They had not heeded this warning before and now they are to receive what they had asked in their self-will. The lot was therefore but an outward, empty ceremony. It fell on Saul, the son of Kish. He could not be found. Why did he hide? Some say it was humility and modesty. It was

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.e._ at the sanctuary there, and reproaches them for wanting a king. [In the Deuteronomic document this paragraph was followed by Samuel's speech (1 Samuel 8:11). Then came.] 1 SAMUEL 10:19 B - 1 SAMUEL 10:24. Lots are cast before Yahweh, _i.e._ by the priests at the sanctuary, and Saul is indicated as the king. Saul had hidden himself, but his hiding-place is made known by the oracle, and S

SEE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. GOD SAVE THE KING. Hebrew Let the king live. An idiom which includes the desire that he might have everything that makes life worth living, including also eternal life....

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 acquainted with the man whom Jehovah had chosen to rule his people, is now resumed, and Saul's public election by lot to the regal office described. Since the revelation to Samuel and the choice by lot were equally declarations of Jehovah's will, there could be no contradiction between them: the latter publicly confirmed the former for the satisfaction of the people....

_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 brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, _and_ of them that oppressed you: 19 And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, _Nay,_ but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes, and by your thousands. 20 And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken. 21 When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was t