1 Samuel 10:9

_AND IT WAS SO, THAT WHEN HE HAD TURNED HIS BACK TO GO FROM SAMUEL, GOD GAVE HIM ANOTHER HEART: AND ALL THOSE SIGNS CAME TO PASS THAT DAY._ When he had turned his back ... God gave him another heart. Influenced by the words of Samuel, as well as by the accomplishment of these signs, Saul's reluctance to undertake the onerous office was overcome. The fulfillment of the two first signs is passed over, but the third is specially described. The spectacle of a man, thought fitter to look after his father's cattle than to take part in the sacred exercises of the young prophets-a man without any previous instruction, or any known taste-entering with ardour into the spirit, and skillfully accompanying the melodies, of the sacred band, was so extraordinary a phenomenon that it gave rise to the proverb, "Is Saul also among the prophets?" (see the note at 1 Samuel 19:24.) The prop

9-16 The signs Samuel had given Saul, came to pass punctually; he found that God had given him another heart, another disposition of mind. Yet let not an outward show of devotion, and a sudden change for the present, be too much relied on; Saul among the prophets was Saul still. His being anointed was kept private. He leaves it to God to carry on his own work by Samuel, and sits still, to see how the matter will fall....

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

AND IT WAS SO, THAT WHEN HE HAD TURNED HIS BACK TO GO FROM SAMUEL,.... When he had taken his leave of him, and set forward on his journey: GOD GAVE HIM ANOTHER HEART; not in a moral or spiritual sense, not a new heart, and a new spirit, as in conversion, but in a civil sense, a right heart, a heart fit for government; filled with wisdom and prudence to rule a people; with courage and magnanimity to protect and defend them against their enemies, and fight for them; a heart not taken up with the affairs of husbandry, with care for his father's asses, and looking after his herds, but filled with concern for the civil welfare of Israel, and with schemes and contrivances for their good, and with warm resolutions to deliver them out of the hands of their enemies: AND ALL THESE SIGNS CAME TO PASS THAT DAY; the two first, which are not particularly mentioned as fulfilled, being more private, a...

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 fulfilment of the signs 9 _God gave him another heart_ Lit. " TURNED him another heart." Cp. 1 Samuel 10:6. The divine inspiration transformed the simple countryman into the King and Deliverer of Israel. The _heart_in Scripture denotes "the centre of the whole mental and spiritual life of will, desire, thought, perception, and feeling....

GOD GAVE HIM ANOTHER HEART— An expression explanatory, of that in the 6th verse, _thou shalt be turned into another man:_ the meaning seems to be, that God inspired him with ideas fit for the rank and station in life which he was now to bear; with such a spirit as might qualify him for the government of God's people....

_Saul Among the Prophets._ 1 Samuel 10:9-16 9 And it was _so,_ that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day. 10 And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them. 11 And it came to pass, when all that knew him before-time saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What _is_ this _that_ is come unto the son of Kish? _Is_ Saul also among the prophets? 12 And one of the same place answered and said, But who _is_ their father? Therefore it became a proverb, _Is_ Saul also among the prophets? 13 And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place. 14 And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant

10:9 gave (b-17) Lit. 'turned.'...