1 Samuel 9:11

_AND AS THEY WENT UP THE HILL TO THE CITY, THEY FOUND YOUNG MAIDENS GOING OUT TO DRAW WATER, AND SAID UNTO THEM, IS THE SEER HERE?_ As they went up the hill to the city - now er-Rameh, lying on an eminence; and On their way they met a band of young maidens going out to the well, which, like all similar places in Palestine, was beyond the precincts of the town. From these damsels they learned that the day was devoted to a festival occasion, in honour of which Samuel had arrived in the city; that a sacrifice had been offered, which was done by prophets in extraordinary circumstances, at a distance from the place in which alone offerings could be presented-namely, the front court of the national sanctuary, first the tabernacle, afterward the temple (Leviticus 17:1; Deuteronomy 12:5).

11-17 The very maid-servants of the city could direct to the prophet. They had heard of the sacrifice, and could tell of the necessity for Samuel's presence. It is no small benefit to live in religious and holy places. And we should always be ready to help those who are seeking after God's prophets. Though God had, in displeasure, granted Israel's request for a king, yet he sends them a man to be captain over them, to save them out of the hand of the Philistines. He does it, listening graciously to their cry....

Verse 1 Samuel 9:11. _YOUNG MAIDENS GOING OUT TO DRAW WATER_] So far is it from being true, that young women were always kept closely shut up at home, that we find them often in the field, drawing and carrying water, as here....

EXPOSITION SELECTION OF SAUL AS KING BY THE VOICE OF PROPHECY. GENEALOGY OF SAUL (1 Samuel 9:1). 1 SAMUEL 9:1 A MAN … WHOSE NAME WAS KISH. The genealogy of Saul is rendered obscure by the Hebrew custom of abbreviating such records by the omission of names. The family documents were no doubt kept in full, but when transcribed, as here and in the First Book of Chronicles, only a summary is given, and as the omitted links are not always the same, great difficulty is necessarily the result. The most satisfactory genealogy is that given b

AND AS THEY WENT UP THE HILL TO THE CITY,.... For the city was built upon an hill, from whence it had the name of Ramah, which signifies high and lifted up: THEY FOUND YOUNG MAIDENS GOING OUT TO DRAW WATER: going out of the city, to a fountain which was at the bottom of the hill; and this was the usual business of maidens in those countries to fetch water for the service of the family, Genesis 24:11, Genesis 24:15, Genesis 24:16. R. Akiba e makes this observation, that whenever a man meets maidens coming out of a city before he goes into it, it is a token of prosperity to him; and instances in the cases of Abraham's servant, of Jacob, and of Moses, and here of Saul, who was

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

UP THE HILL. by the ascent of....

Inquiry for the seer 11. _as they went up_ AS THEY WERE ASCENDING BY THE ASCENT TO THE CITY. The Hebrew has a peculiar construction, the repetition of which is characteristic of this chapter. Cp. 1 Samuel 9:5_; 1Sa 9:14; 1 Samuel 9:17; 1 Samuel 9:27_. _young maidens going out to draw water_ Cp. Genesis 24:15; Genesis 29:9 ff.; Exodus 2:16; John 4:7. The well was in the

_Samuel and Saul Meet._ 1 Samuel 9:11-21 _Samuel and Saul Meet._ 1 Samuel 9:11-21 11 _And_ as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here? 12 And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, _he is_ before you; make haste now, for he came today to the city; for _there is_ a sacrifice of the people today in the high place: 13 As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; _and_ afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him. 14 And they went up into the city: _and_