_AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS, THAT THE PHILISTINES GATHERED THEIR ARMIES TOGETHER FOR WARFARE, TO FIGHT WITH ISRAEL. AND ACHISH SAID UNTO DAVID, KNOW THOU ASSUREDLY, THAT THOU SHALT GO OUT WITH ME TO BATTLE, THOU AND THY MEN._ The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fig... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SAID TO ACHISH, SURELY THOU SHALT KNOW WHAT THY SERVANT CAN DO. AND ACHISH SAID TO DAVID, THEREFORE WILL I MAKE THEE KEEPER OF MINE HEAD FOR EVER._ Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. This answer, while it seemed to express an apparent cheerfulness in agreeing to the proposal... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW SAMUEL WAS DEAD, AND ALL ISRAEL HAD LAMENTED HIM, AND BURIED HIM IN RAMAH, EVEN IN HIS OWN CITY. AND SAUL HAD PUT AWAY THOSE THAT HAD FAMILIAR SPIRITS, AND THE WIZARDS, OUT OF THE LAND._ Now Samuel was dead ... This event is alluded to as affording an explanation of the secret and improper met... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PHILISTINES GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER, AND CAME AND PITCHED IN SHUNEM: AND SAUL GATHERED ALL ISRAEL TOGETHER, AND THEY PITCHED IN GILBOA._ The Philistines ... pitched in Shunem. Having collected their forces for a last grand effort, they marched up from the sea coast, and encamped in th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN SAUL SAW THE HOST OF THE PHILISTINES, HE WAS AFRAID, AND HIS HEART GREATLY TREMBLED._ And when Saul saw ... he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled. There is in this description of Saul's emotions a paranomasia, play on the name of the place, which was called 'the well or spring of... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN SAUL INQUIRED OF THE LORD, THE LORD ANSWERED HIM NOT, NEITHER BY DREAMS, NOR BY URIM, NOR BY PROPHETS._ And when Saul inquired of the Lord. Since it was a part of the official duty of the high priest to ask counsel for rulers in all matters affecting the national interests of Israel, we f... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAID SAUL UNTO HIS SERVANTS, SEEK ME A WOMAN THAT HATH A FAMILIAR SPIRIT, THAT I MAY GO TO HER, AND INQUIRE OF HER. AND HIS SERVANTS SAID TO HIM, BEHOLD, THERE IS A WOMAN THAT HATH A FAMILIAR SPIRIT AT ENDOR._ Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, х_ 'EESHET_ (H802) _ BA`ªLAT_ (H1172)... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL DISGUISED HIMSELF, AND PUT ON OTHER RAIMENT, AND HE WENT, AND TWO MEN WITH HIM, AND THEY CAME TO THE WOMAN BY NIGHT: AND HE SAID, I PRAY THEE, DIVINE UNTO ME BY THE FAMILIAR SPIRIT, AND BRING ME HIM UP, WHOM I SHALL NAME UNTO THEE._ Bring me him up whom I shall name unto thee. This python... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WOMAN SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD, THOU KNOWEST WHAT SAUL HATH DONE, HOW HE HATH CUT OFF THOSE THAT HAVE FAMILIAR SPIRITS, AND THE WIZARDS, OUT OF THE LAND: WHEREFORE THEN LAYEST THOU A SNARE FOR MY LIFE, TO CAUSE ME TO DIE?_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL SWARE TO HER BY THE LORD, SAYING, AS THE LORD LIVETH, THERE SHALL NO PUNISHMENT HAPPEN TO THEE FOR THIS THING._ SAUL SWARE TO HER BY THE LORD. It is evident that the oath, "as the Lord liveth," had, as used by such a person as Saul, become a common and established form of swearing in Israe... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAID THE WOMAN, WHOM SHALL I BRING UP UNTO THEE? AND HE SAID, BRING ME UP SAMUEL._ Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? - i:e., evoke from Sheol, Hades, the invisible subterranean world, which, according to the popular ideas of the Hebrews, was the abode of departed spirits u... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE WOMAN SAW SAMUEL, SHE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE: AND THE WOMAN SPAKE TO SAUL, SAYING, WHY HAST THOU DECEIVED ME? FOR THOU ART SAUL._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KING SAID UNTO HER, BE NOT AFRAID: FOR WHAT SAWEST THOU? AND THE WOMAN SAID UNTO SAUL, I SAW GODS ASCENDING OUT OF THE EARTH._ I SAW GODS ASCENDING OUT OF THE EARTH, х_ 'ªLOHIYM_ (H430). The Septuagint has theous heooraka anabainontas; which our translators have followed. But it is evident... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO HER, WHAT FORM IS HE OF? AND SHE SAID, AN OLD MAN COMETH UP; AND HE IS COVERED WITH A MANTLE. AND SAUL PERCEIVED THAT IT WAS SAMUEL, AND HE STOOPED WITH HIS FACE TO THE GROUND, AND BOWED HIMSELF._ And he said unto her, What form is he of?, х_ MAH_ (H4100) _ TAA'ªROW_ (H8389)] - Wh... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAMUEL SAID TO SAUL, WHY HAST THOU DISQUIETED ME, TO BRING ME UP? AND SAUL ANSWERED, I AM SORE DISTRESSED; FOR THE PHILISTINES MAKE WAR AGAINST ME, AND GOD IS DEPARTED FROM ME, AND ANSWERETH ME NO MORE, NEITHER BY PROPHETS, NOR BY DREAMS: THEREFORE I HAVE CALLED THEE, THAT THOU MAYEST MAKE KNOW... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD HATH DONE TO HIM, AS HE SPAKE BY ME: FOR THE LORD HATH RENT THE KINGDOM OUT OF THINE HAND, AND GIVEN IT TO THY NEIGHBOUR, EVEN TO DAVID:_ The Lord hath done to him as he spake by me ie to or for Himself; for the accomplishment of His THE LORD HATH DONE TO HIM AS HE SPAKE BY ME - i:e.,... [ Continue Reading ]
_BECAUSE THOU OBEYEDST NOT THE VOICE OF THE LORD, NOR EXECUTEDST HIS FIERCE WRATH UPON AMALEK, THEREFORE HATH THE LORD DONE THIS THING UNTO THEE THIS DAY._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_MOREOVER THE LORD WILL ALSO DELIVER ISRAEL WITH THEE INTO THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES: AND TO MORROW SHALT THOU AND THY SONS BE WITH ME: THE LORD ALSO SHALL DELIVER THE HOST OF ISRAEL INTO THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES._ Tomorrow shalt thou and thy sons by with me - i:e., in the state of the dead. T... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAUL FELL STRAIGHTWAY ALL ALONG ON THE EARTH, AND WAS SORE AFRAID, BECAUSE OF THE WORDS OF SAMUEL: AND THERE WAS NO STRENGTH IN HIM; FOR HE HAD EATEN NO BREAD ALL THE DAY, NOR ALL THE NIGHT._ Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth х_ MªLO'_ (H4393) _ QOWMAATOW_ (H6967)] - his full... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WOMAN CAME UNTO SAUL, AND SAW THAT HE WAS SORE TROUBLED, AND SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD, THINE HANDMAID HATH OBEYED THY VOICE, AND I HAVE PUT MY LIFE IN MY HAND, AND HAVE HEARKENED UNTO THY WORDS WHICH THOU SPAKEST UNTO ME._ And the woman came unto Saul. During the performance of the necromanti... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THEREFORE, I PRAY THEE, HEARKEN THOU ALSO UNTO THE VOICE OF THINE HANDMAID, AND LET ME SET A MORSEL OF BREAD BEFORE THEE; AND EAT, THAT THOU MAYEST HAVE STRENGTH, WHEN THOU GOEST ON THY WAY._ Hearken ... unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee. Her great... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT HE REFUSED, AND SAID, I WILL NOT EAT. BUT HIS SERVANTS, TOGETHER WITH THE WOMAN, COMPELLED HIM; AND HE HEARKENED UNTO THEIR VOICE. SO HE AROSE FROM THE EARTH, AND SAT UPON THE BED._ His servants, together with the woman, compelled him - i:e., did labour to persuade him by their importunities a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WOMAN HAD A FAT CALF IN THE HOUSE; AND SHE HASTED, AND KILLED IT, AND TOOK FLOUR, AND KNEADED IT, AND DID BAKE UNLEAVENED BREAD THEREOF:_ The woman had a fat calf in the house. The flesh of the herd was reckoned, when young, one of the greatest delicacies. The houses in the village of In-d... [ Continue Reading ]