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THE FATLINGS - The present Hebrew text cannot be so rendered. It can
only mean “the second best” (compare the margin), i. e., sheep of
the age to cut or shed the two teeth, sheep in their prime. But i...
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8. WAR WITH AMALEK: SAUL'S DISOBEDIENCE AND REJECTION
CHAPTER 15
_ 1. The commission to destroy Amalek (1 Samuel 15:1)_
2. Saul's disobedience and rejection (1 Samuel 15:10)
3. Saul's confession ...
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XV. THE WAR AGAINST AMALEK; SAUL'S DISOBEDIENCE AND DEPOSITION (E). -
A section of a secondary narrative; according to the scheme adopted
here, the last section of this document was 1 Samuel 3:3 to 1...
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AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6) in this verse.
EVERY THING THAT _ WAS_ VILE. all the stock that was worthless....
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_spared Agag_ Perhaps to grace his triumph and to be an evidence of
his victory (Judges 1:7): perhaps from a feeling of sympathy with a
fellow king (1 Kings 20:32).
_and the best of the sheep_, &c. In...
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_Saul's Incomplete Obedience. 1 Samuel 15:7-9_
7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah _until_ thou comest to
Shur, that _is_ over against Egypt,
8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites al...
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_BUT SAUL AND THE PEOPLE SPARED AGAG, AND THE BEST OF THE SHEEP, AND
OF THE OXEN, AND OF THE FATLINGS, AND THE LAMBS, AND ALL THAT WAS
GOOD, AND WOULD NOT UTTERLY DESTROY THEM: BUT EVERY THING THAT WA...
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15:9 bearing, (b-21) Or 'fatted beasts.' lambs, (c-24) Fat lambs fed
on rich pasture....
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SAUL'S VICTORY OVER AMALEK. HIS DISOBEDIENCE AND REJECTION
Amalek had attacked Israel at Rephidim (Exodus 17:8) and opposed their
entrance into Canaan (Numbers 14:45 : cp. Deuteronomy 25:7; They are
m...
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 15
GOD REFUSES SAUL AS KING
V1 Samuel said to Saul, ‘The *Lord sent me to *anoint you as king
over his people, the *Israelites. Now listen to...
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AND HE TOOK AGAG... ALIVE. — Agag seems to have been for the
sovereigns of Amalek the official title, like Pharaoh in the case of
the kings of Egypt, and Abimelech among certain of the Philistine
peop...
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וַ יַּחְמֹל֩ שָׁא֨וּל וְ הָ עָ֜ם עַל
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CHAPTER XXI.
_ THE FINAL REJECTION OF SAUL_
1 Samuel 15:1.
HERE we find the second portion of God's indictment against Saul, and
the reason for his final rejection from the office to which he had
be...
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LEADING THE PEOPLE IN DISOBEDIENCE
1 Samuel 15:1
Several years intervened between the preceding chapter and this. The
kingdom had become strong and prosperous. It seemed as though Samuel's
sentence o...
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Saul was commissioned by Jehovah through Samuel to smite Amalek, and
it was in connection with this that the sin occurred which filled his
cup to the brim and caused him to be rejected.
His campaign...
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_Garments. Hebrew is commonly rendered, "fatlings." Septuagint,
"eatables." (Calmet) --- Avarice seems to have actuated Saul,
(Lyranus) or a false pity, (Josephus) or a desire to grace his
triumph, ve...
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(7) And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to
Shur, that is over against Egypt. (8) And he took Agag the king of the
Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with t...
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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...
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Nevertheless Saul is put to a final proof. Jehovah, by the mouth of
Samuel, sends him to smite Amalek, and utterly destroy them and all
that belonged to them. They were the cruel and determined enemie...
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AND SAUL AND ALL THE PEOPLE SPARED AGAG,.... Perhaps Saul made the
motion to spare him, and the people agreed to it; it may be, out of
respect to him as a king; or because of the comeliness of his per...
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But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of
the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all [that was] good,
and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing [that...
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_Would not utterly destroy them_ As they had been commanded of God,
but took them as a prey to themselves. _Every thing that was vile,
they destroyed_ All that was not worth the keeping. Thus they obe...
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1 Samuel sendeth Saul to destroy Amalek.
6 Saul fauoureth the Kenites.
8 Hee spareth Agag and the best of the spoile.
10 Samuel denounceth vnto Saul commending and excusing himselfe, Gods
reiection...
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But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of
the oxen and of the fatlings, those of the second brood, commonly
considered the best, AND THE LAMBS, AND ALL THAT WAS GOOD, AND WO...
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THE UNAUTHORIZED ACTION OF SAUL...
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God had a more solemn controversy with the Amalekites than with the
Philistines. The mere formal worship typified by the Philistines is
empty; but Amalekite "lusts of the flesh" are a deadly enemy tha...
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FATLINGS:
Or, of the second sort...
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1-9 The sentence of condemnation against the Amalekites had gone
forth long before, Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 25:19, but they had been
spared till they filled up the measure of their sins. We are sur...
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SAUL AND THE PEOPLE; the one proposed to do so, and the other
consented to it, and so both were guilty. ALL THAT WAS GOOD; which it
is more than probable they reserved for their own use, rather than f...
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1 Samuel 15:9 Saul H7586 people H5971 spared H2550 (H8799) Agag H90
best H4315 sheep H6629 oxen H1241 fatlings...
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SAUL'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE AMALEKITES AND HIS SACRILEGE WITH REGARD
TO THE DEVOTED THINGS (1 SAMUEL 15:4).
1 Samuel 15:4
‘ And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two
hundred mi...
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1 Samuel 15
_(with 1 Timothy 1:19)_
The story of Saul is among the saddest which Scripture anywhere
contains.
I. Notice first the singular elements of nobleness which are to be
traced in his natural...
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CONTENTS: Saul's incomplete obedience and his rejection as king.
CHARACTERS: God, Samuel, Saul, Agag.
CONCLUSION: Some judge many things in their lives, but spare one Agag
which the Lord has condemn...
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1 Samuel 15:2. _I remember what Amalek did; Numbers 17:8_; and what he
has often repeated, in the effusion of innocent blood. He joined
Midian, and the children of the east, in a bloody and unprovoked...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
1 Samuel 15:4. “TELAIM.” Most likely the same as _Telem_ (Joshua
15:21; Joshua 15:24), a city lying on the eastern border of Judah, and
therefore near the territory of t...
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FINAL REJECTION OF SAUL (1 Samuel 15:1.)
EXPOSITION
DIVINE COMMAND TO PUNISH THE AMALEKITES, AND ITS EXECUTION BY SAUL ...
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Now as we get into chapter fifteen,
Samuel came to Saul, and said, The Lord sent me to anoint you to be
king over his people, over Israel: now hearken unto the voice of the
words of the Lord (1 Samue...
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1 Samuel 15:15; 1 Samuel 15:19; 1 Samuel 15:3; 2 Samuel 6:13; Joshua
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TO OBEY IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE
1 Samuel 15:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
Disobedience is black with the frown of God. Sin is the transgression
of the Law. Disobedience is taking one's own way, as against...
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Vile — Thus they obeyed God only so far as they could without
inconvenience to themselves....