1 Samuel 19:24

_AND HE STRIPPED OFF HIS CLOTHES ALSO, AND PROPHESIED BEFORE SAMUEL IN LIKE MANNER, AND LAY DOWN NAKED ALL THAT DAY AND ALL THAT NIGHT. WHEREFORE THEY SAY, IS SAUL ALSO AMONG THE PROPHETS?_ Lay down naked - i:e., divested of his armour and outer robes, as the prophets seem to have stripped themselves of their upper clothing in seasons of extraordinary devotion (cf. Isaiah 1:3; Isaiah 20:2; Amos 2:16; Micah 1:8: also John 21:7; Josephus, 'Antiquities,' b. 4:, ch. 3:, sec. 2; b. 8:, ch. 14:, sec. 7; also b. 11:, ch. 5: sec. 8). Thus God, in making the wrath of m

11-24 Michal's stratagem to gain time till David got to a distance was allowable, but her falsehood had not even the plea of necessity to excuse it, and manifests that she was not influenced by the same spirit of piety which had dictated Jonathan's language to Saul. In flying to Samuel, David made God his refuge. Samuel, as a prophet, was best able to advise him what to do in this day of distress. He met with little rest or satisfaction in Saul's court, therefore went to seek it in Samuel's church. What little pleasure is to be had in this world, those have who live a life of communion with God; to that David returned in the time of trouble. So impatient was Saul after David's blood, so restless against him, that although baffled by one providence after another, he could not see that David was under the special protection of God. And when God will take this way to protect David, even Sa...

Verse 1 Samuel 19:24. _HE STRIPPED OFF HIS CLOTHES_] Threw off his royal robes or military dress, retaining only his _tunic_; and continued so all that day and all that night, uniting with the sons of the prophets in _prayers, singing praises_, and other _religious exercises_, which were unusual to kings and warriors; and this gave rise to the saying, _Is Saul also among the prophets_? By bringing both him and his men thus under a Divine influence, God prevented them from injuring the person of David. 1 Samuel 10:6, c. and see my sermon on _The Christian Prophet and his Work_....

NAKED - i. e., without his robe and other outer garments, but only the shirt. Compare the marginal references. The whole history affords another instance of the protection of God vouchsafed to His servants, which forms so frequent a topic of the Psalms of David....

SUCCESSIVE ATTEMPTS UPON DAVID'S LIFE FRUSTRATED BY THE LOVE OF JONATHAN AND MICHAL, AND FINALLY BY FLIGHT (1 Samuel 19:1.). EXPOSITION JONATHAN'S LOVE FOR DAVID (1 Samuel 19:1). 1 SAMUEL 19:1 SAUL SPAKE TO JONATHAN HIS SON...THAT THEY SHOULD KILL DAVID. The translation of the last clause is untenable;

AND HE STRIPPED OFF HIS CLOTHES ALSO,.... Not all his clothes, but his upper garments, as men in such circumstances used to do, as the prophets sometimes did, and as it seems his messengers had done; according to Jarchi, R. Isaiah, and others n, he stripped himself of his royal robes, and put on the habit of the scholars, the disciples, and sons of the prophets: AND PROPHESIED BEFORE SAMUEL IN LIKE MANNER, as the messengers had done, singing such like songs, or foretelling such like things as they did; he and they speaking not of themselves, but as they were moved by the Holy Spirit of prophecy; for such gifts have sometimes been bestowed on men that were destitute of the grace of God, as Balaam, Caiaphas, and others; AND LAY DOWN: or "fell down" o, as persons in an ecstasy or trance: and lay NAKED ALL THAT DAY, AND ALL THAT NIGHT; not entirely naked, both without his upper garment or...

4. SAUL'S RENEWED ATTEMPT AND DAVID'S ESCAPE CHAPTER 19 _ 1. Saul and Jonathan (1 Samuel 19:1)_ 2. Saul's new attempt to kill David (1 Samuel 19:8) 3. David's escape (1 Samuel 19:11) 4. Saul's pursuit and his helplessness (1 Samuel 19:19) The lost King goes from bad to worse. First he tried to spear David; then he attempted to take his life through having him killed by the Philistines, and now he speaks openly to his own son and to all his servants that David must be killed. Therefore loving Jonathan warned David and he hid himself Then Jonathan persuades his father to desist an

DAVID AT RAMAH (R). Of uncertain origin, probably late. Partly parallel to 1 Samuel 10:10 ff. David takes refuge with Samuel at Naioth in Ramah. Naioth is apparently not a proper name, but if it is not, its meaning is quite unknown. It has been conjectured that it may have been the quarter of the town inhabited by the prophets. The contagious nature of this ecstatic prophecy is shown by the fact that, first Saul's messengers, and then Saul himself, are seized by it when they come to Naioth. [For 1 Samuel 19:24_ b cf._ 1 Samuel 10:11 f., another story as to the origin of the proverb. A. S. P.]...

CLOTHES: i.e. his robes, or armour, or both. NAKED. Compare 1 Samuel 18:4, i.e. stripped of outer garments. IS SAUL... ? _Figure of speech Parcemia._ App-6....

David takes refuge with Samuel at Ramah 18. _to Samuel_ Turning naturally for direction at this crisis to the prophet who had anointed him, and hoping that Saul would at least reverence the age and authority of Samuel. No doubt David had had much intercourse with Samuel since their first meeting at Bethlehem. _in Naioth Naioth_, which was at or near Ramah, is a quasi-proper name signifying _dwellings_, and in al probability denotes the _College_, or common residence of the society of prophets collected together at Ramah by Samuel. See Introd. ch. 6 p. 33. Cp. 2 Kings 6:1-2. The Targum renders the word "house of instruction." Hither Samuel took David, partly as being a safer place of refuge than his own house; partly that he might be spiritually strengthened by a share in the religious exercises of the society ...