1 Samuel 10:5

_AFTER THAT THOU SHALT COME TO THE HILL OF GOD, WHERE IS THE GARRISON OF THE PHILISTINES: AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN THOU ART COME THITHER TO THE CITY, THAT THOU SHALT MEET A COMPANY OF PROPHETS COMING DOWN FROM THE HIGH PLACE WITH A PSALTERY, AND A TABRET, AND A PIPE, AND A HARP, BEFORE THEM; AND THEY SHALL PROPHESY:_ The hill of God - probably Geba (1 Samuel 13:3), so called from a school of the prophets being established there. The company of prophets were, doubtless, the pupils at this seminary, which had probably been instituted by Samuel, and in which the chief branches of education taught were a knowledge of the law, and of psalmody, with instrumental music, which is called 'prophesying' (here and in 1 Chronicles 25:1;...

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...

Verse 1 Samuel 10:5. _THE HILL OF GOD_] The Targum says, "The hill on which _the ark of the Lord was_. Calmet supposes it to be a height near Gibeah. _THE GARRISON OF THE PHILISTINES_] Probably they kept a watch on the top of this hill, with a company of soldiers to keep the country in check. _A COMPANY OF PROPHETS_] A company of scribes, says the Targum. Probably the scholars of the prophets; for the prophets seem to have been the only accredited teachers, at particular times, in Israel; and at this time there does not appear to have been any other prophet besides Samuel in this quarter. Probably the teacher of this school was not an inspired man, but one acting under the direction of Samuel. Mr. Harmer thinks that the following custom among the Mohammedans greatly illustrates this obscure place: "When the children have go

HILL OF GOD - Rather, “Gibeah” of God, and so in 1 Samuel 10:10. Two things are clear; “one” that Saul had got home when he got to Gibeah of God, for there he found his uncle, and no further journeying is so much as hinted at, and the same word “Gibeah” describes his home at 1 Samuel 10:26. The “other” that there was a high place at Gibeah just above the city, from which he met the company of prophets “coming down.” Hence, it is obvious to conclude that the name “Gibeah of God” (which occurs nowhere else) was sometimes given to Gibeah of Saul on account of the worship on its high place, or, possibly, that the name “Gibeah of God” described the whole hill on a part of which the city Gibeah stood. Where is the garrison of the Philisti

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

AFTER THAT THOU SHALL COME TO THE HILL OF GOD,.... The Targum is, the hill in which was the ark of the Lord, and that was in the house of Abinadab, on a hill in the city of Kirjathjearim, 1 Samuel 7:1 and so the Jewish commentators generally interpret this hill of God of Kirjathjearim; but rather it was Geba, a city of Benjamin, partly because by this time he must have got out of the tribe of Judah into the tribe of Benjamin, and even almost to the end of his journey, and among those that were his relations, 1 Samuel 10:11 and partly because it is certain there was a garrison of the Philistines at Geba, 1 Samuel 13:3 as there was at this place, as follows: WHERE IS THE GARRISON OF THE PHILISTINES; which

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

THE GARRISON. So the Septuagint, Aramaean, and Syriac, but Hebrew text has plural A COMPANY OF PROPHETS. The first occurrence of this expression. Probably. school established by Samuel (compare Acts 3:24; Acts 13:20). The head of such school called "father" (Compare 1 Samuel 10:12; 1 Samuel 19:20), or "master" (2 Kings 2:3), Such communities found later at Beth-el, Jericho, Gilgal (2Ki 2:3, 2 Kings 2:5;...

_the hill of God_ Or, GIBEAH OF GOD. _Gibeah_is the term used to denote -the bald rounded hills of central Palestine." This eminence was distinguished as _Gibeah of God_, or _God's hill_, from the place of worship on its summit. It is probably to be identified with (_a) Gibeah of Benjamin_, which was a place of considerable importance (Judges 19:20, compare 1 Samuel 13:2, &c.); and (_b) Gibeah of saul_, saul's residence (1 Samuel 10:26; 1 Samuel 11:4). Its site is supposed by Dr Robinson to be the conspicuous hill called _Tell el Fûl_(_hill of the bean_), about 3 miles N. of Jerusalem; but Lie