And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
Ver. 48. And he gathered a host,] See on 1 Samuel 14:47 .
And delivered Israel out of the hands.] God may make use of wicked men as instruments to defend his people: "the earth helped the woman"; Rev 12:16 yet the vials of God's wrath were poured out "upon the earth." Rev 16:1
Verse 1 Samuel 14:48. _SMOTE THE AMALEKITES._] This war is mentioned in the following chapter....
7. JONATHAN'S HEROIC DEED OF FAITH CHAPTER 14 _ 1. Jonathan's victory (1 Samuel 14:1)_ 2. Saul's adjuration and Jonathan's deed (1 Samuel 14:24) 3. Saul's first altar and unanswered inquiry ...
In this section the editor gives a concluding summary concerning Saul as king, before narrating his deposition in the next chapter. In the editor's eyes, Saul ceased to be king _de jure,_ when Samuel...
AN HOST. Hebrew "power". Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, put for the army which manifested the power. Or, it may be rendered "he wrought mightily"....
_gathered a host_ Better, DID VALIANTLY, as in Numbers 24:18; Psalms 40:12. _smote the Amalekites_ As recorded at length in ch. 15....
Summary account of Saul's wars and family 47. _So Saul took the kingdom_ The various wars undertaken by Saul whom the people elected king "to go out before them and fight their battles" are here summa...
_Saul's Other Battles and His Family._ 1 Samuel 14:47-52 47 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, an...
_AND HE GATHERED AN HOST, AND SMOTE THE AMALEKITES, AND DELIVERED ISRAEL OUT OF THE HANDS OF THEM THAT SPOILED THEM._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
14:48 valiantly, (c-4) Or 'gathered a force,' 'formed an army.'...
JONATHAN'S EXPLOIT. THE BATTLE OF MICHMASH. A SUMMARY OF SAUL'S REIGN 3. Ahiah] RV 'Ahijah,' probably merely another form of Ahimelech (1 Samuel 21:1). Melech (king) was one of the titles of Jah or J...
GATHERED AN HOST] RV 'did valiantly.'...
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 14 V1 A young man carried Jonathan’s *armour. Jonathan was Saul’s son. One day, Jonathan said to the young man, ‘Let us go across to the *Phil...
SMOTE THE AMALEKITES. — Out of the many wars the king waged, this war with Amalek is singled out, for in the new development of Hebrew power by which Saul’s reign was marked this campaign or series of...
וַ יַּ֣עַשׂ חַ֔יִל וַ יַּ֖ךְ אֶת ־עֲמָלֵ֑ק
CHAPTER XX _ SAUL'S WILFULNESS._ 1 Samuel 14:24. THAT Saul was now suffering in character under the influence of the high position and great power to which he had been raised, is only too apparent f...
THE MAN WHO WROUGHT WITH GOD RESCUED 1 Samuel 14:36 In this case the voice of the people was the voice of God. If a man dares to stand alone with God, he cannot be put to shame. If he says of the Lor...
Here we have a picture of Saul, with a part of the army about him, remaining idle in Gibeah. His son Jonathan moved to action by his sense of the degradation of his people, and his conviction of the s...
And he gathered an host, and smote the (t) Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them. (t) As the Lord had commanded, (Deuteronomy 25:17)....
_Amalec. The particulars of this war will be given [in] chap. xv., as it explains the cause of Saul's rejection, and David's advancement to the throne. (Salien)_...
(47) В¶ So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and a...
We have already seen that the desire and deliberate decision of the people for a king was a direct blow at the government of God in Israel; but the time was come to permit the will of the people to ha...
But faith in God is always blest; and if God has shewn the effect of unbelief, He also shews its folly, since wherever faith is found, there all His strength is displayed; and then it is the enemy who...
AND HE GATHERED AN HOST,.... A large army; for after the battle with the Ammonites he disbanded his army, and sent them home, retaining only 3000 men, and these deserted him to six hundred, which were...
_Saul took the kingdom_ That is, resumed the administration of it, after he had, in a manner, lost it by the Philistines, who had almost got the entire possession of it, and enslaved Israel. _And foug...
1 Ionathan, vnwitting to his father, the Priest, or the people, goeth and miraculously smiteth the Philistines garrison. 15 A diuine terrour maketh them beate themselues. 17 Saul not staying the Pri...
And he gathered an host, he increased in strength and made his power felt, AND SMOTE THE AMALEKITES, the desert tribes in the South, AND DELIVERED ISRAEL OUT OF THE HANDS OF THEM THAT SPOILED THEM, ma...
Saul's Campaigns...
The Philistines seemed content to intimidate Israel with their tremendous show of strength, rather than to attack Saul. One man, however, is not to be intimidated. Jonathan, in the face of Philistine...
GATHERED AN HOST: Or, wrought mightily...
47-52 Here is a general account of Saul's court and camp. He had little reason to be proud of his royal dignity, nor had any of his neighbours cause to envy him, for he had but little enjoyment after...
SMOTE THE AMALEKITES; which is here mentioned only in the general, but is particularly described in the next chapter....
1 Samuel 14:48 gathered H6213 (H8799) army H2428 attacked H5221 (H8686) Amalekites H6002 delivered H5337 (H8686)
A SUMMARY OF SAUL'S EARLIER REIGN AND ITS SUCCESSES AND OF HIS CLOSE FAMILY (1 SAMUEL 14:47). Having demonstrated both Saul's partial success, mainly through the faith of Jonathan, and his partial fai...
1 Samuel 14 These were evil days for the people of Israel. But it was in these dark days that Jonathan shone so famous. It is yet true that difficulties prove our mettle, and that the greater the har...
CONTENTS: Jonathan's great victory over the Philistines. CHARACTERS: God, Jonathan, armor-bearer, Saul, Ahiah, Abner. CONCLUSION: Let this strengthen the weak and encourage the timid, that no matter...
1 Samuel 14:2. _Under a pomegranate tree._ רמן _Rimmon,_ a rock in the tribe of Judah. Joshua 15:32; Judges 20:47. This reading agrees best with the position of Saul's army, in a place of safety....
_And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people._ GREAT ISSUES HANG ON A KING’S RASH WORD One little sentence, spoken in a moment of passion by King Henry the Second,...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 14:1 This chapter focuses on Saul’s son Jonathan, who will become a friend of David. Jonathan’s act of trust in this chapter is sandwiched between two examples of Saul’s diso...
1 Samuel 14:47. “SO SAUL TOOK THE KINGDOM.” “As Saul had first of all secured a recognition of himself as king on the part of all the tribes of Israel by his victories over the Ammonites at Jabesh (1...
EXPOSITION JONATHAN'S DANGER AND DELIVERANCE (1 Samuel 14:36-9). 1 SAMUEL 14:36 LET US GO DOWN AFTER THE PHILISTINES BY NIGHT. Saul, conscious that he had prevented the victory f
EXPOSITION JONATHAN SMITES THE PHILISTINE GAR-BISON (1 Samuel 14:1). 1 SAMUEL 14:1 NOW IT CAME TO PASS UPON A DAY. Literally, "And there was a day, and
Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man that bear his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison on the other side. But he did not tell h...
1 Samuel 15:3; Deuteronomy 25:19; Exodus 17:14...