Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
1 Samuel 19:22
Where are Samuel and David? for, his messengers not returning, he knew not exactly where they were.
Where are Samuel and David? for, his messengers not returning, he knew not exactly where they were.
TO A GREAT WELL - Some large well-known cistern at Sechu, the site of which is uncertain, which Saul passed on his way from Gibeah to Ramah....
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)...
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 no...
ONE. A special various reading _(Sevir)_ reads "they". See App-34....
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 a...
_a great well_ THE GREAT CISTERN, some well known landmark in _Sechu_, a place nowhere else mentioned, between Gibeah and Ramah. The reading is uncertain. The Sept. has "the well of the _threshing-flo...
SAUL SENT MESSENGERS TO TAKE DAVID—AND HE WENT THITHER, &C.— One intent of this prophesying of the messengers and Saul was to prevent them from seizing, and him from murdering, certainly David, and pr...
_David With Samuel._ 1 Samuel 19:18-24 18 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. 19 And it wa...
_THEN WENT HE ALSO TO RAMAH, AND CAME TO A GREAT WELL THAT IS IN SECHU: AND HE ASKED AND SAID, WHERE ARE SAMUEL AND DAVID? AND ONE SAID, BEHOLD, THEY BE AT NAIOTH IN RAMAH._ Then went be also to Rama...
SAUL'S HATRED OF DAVID. DAVID ESCAPES TO SAMUEL 2. Until the morning] RV 'in the morning.'...
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 19 SAUL TRIES TO KILL DAVID V1 Saul told his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. Jonathan liked David very much. V2 So he warned...
וַ יֵּ֨לֶךְ גַּם ־ה֜וּא הָ רָמָ֗תָה וַ
CHAPTER XXVI. _ SAUL'S FURTHER EFFORTS AGAINST DAVID._ 1 Samuel 19:1. ANEW Stage of his wicked passion is now reached by Saul; he communes with his servants, and even with his son, with a view to th...
SAUL CHECKED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD 1 Samuel 19:13 David hastened to apprise Samuel of the turn that events were taking, and of his grave suspicions that Saul was attempting on his life. For greater se...
Saul's enmity toward David grew, while the friendship between Jonathan and David increased. Saul did all in his power to set both Jonathan and the people against David. He even went so far as to charg...
Now that we have heard the prophet's judgment of king Saul, there follows next the choice of Jehovah. The chapter gives us in a very striking manner the manifest sentence of death on all the thoughts...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18 AND 19. But when Christ makes Himself known, the remnant (which Jonathan represented) loves Him as his own soul, and this beloved one becomes the object of...
THEN WENT HE ALSO TO RAMAH,.... That is, Saul; his messengers not returning to him, when he sent one after another to take David, at length he set out himself from Gibeah to Ramah: AND CAME TO A GREA...
Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that [is] in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where [are] Samuel and David? And [one] said, Behold, [they be] at Naioth in Ramah. Ver. 22. _Then went...
_He sent other messengers_ Strange obstinacy, to contend so long with the Spirit of God. _And they prophesied likewise_ That is, they joined with the rest in praising God. “Instead,” says Henry, “of s...
1 Ionathan discloseth his fathers purpose to kill Dauid. 4 Hee perswadeth his father to reconciliation. 8 By reason of Dauids good successe in a new warre, Sauls malicious rage breaketh out against...
Then went he, Saul, ALSO TO RAMAH, in a stubborn determination to carry out his will, AND CAME TO A GREAT WELL THAT IS IN SECHU, a large cistern not far from Ramah; AND HE ASKED AND SAID, WHERE ARE SA...
Saul In Ramah...
When Saul told Jonathan and all his servants to put David to death, no sensible servant would have approved of this. Jonathan however, positively loved David and warned him of Saul's intentions. Still...
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 s...
1 Samuel 19:22 went H3212 (H8799) Ramah H7414 came H935 (H8799) great H1419 well H953 Sechu H7906 asked...
DAVID TAKES REFUGE WITH SAMUEL AT RAMAH AND WHEN SAUL TRIES TO TAKE HIM HE DISCOVERS THAT YHWH HAS OTHER MEANS OF PREVENTING HIM FROM DOING SO (1 SAMUEL 19:18). Recognising that Saul was seeking his l...
CONTENTS: Saul's murderous hate pursues David. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, David, Saul, Jonathan, Michal, Samuel. CONCLUSION: God always raises up a friend for us in time of need. Envy allowed its...
1 Samuel 19:11. _Saul sent messengers to slay him._ The Vulgate, _lictors,_ executioners. They could not approach the bed of a princess till the morning. 1 Samuel 19:13. _Michal took an image,_ a stat...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 19:1 Saul moves from trying to use the Philistines to kill David to actually ordering him killed. Jonathan brings about a reconciliation between Saul and David, but David fin...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 19:20. “PROPHETS.” “It is to be noted that we have here _prophets_ who in inspired discourse give forth their inner life, filled with the Holy Ghost, not _sons_...
SUCCESSIVE ATTEMPTS UPON DAVID'S LIFE FRUSTRATED BY THE LOVE OF JONATHAN AND MICHAL, AND FINALLY BY FLIGHT (1 Samuel 19:1