Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
1 Samuel 10:8
Seven days shalt thou tarry ... - The appointment here made is not to be confounded with that mentioned in marginal reference.
Seven days shalt thou tarry ... - The appointment here made is not to be confounded with that mentioned in marginal reference.
Verse 1 Samuel 10:8. _SEVEN DAYS SHALT THOU TARRY_] I will come to thee within seven days, offer sacrifices, receive directions from the Lord, and deliver them to thee. It is likely that these seven...
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 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...
THOU SHALT GO DOWN. This was the beginning of organised rising against the Philistines. All directed by God through Samuel; not by Saul. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. OFFER. offer up...
_thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal_ Better, AND WHEN THOU GOEST DOWN BEFORE ME TO GILGAL. This is not to be understood as a direction to meet Samuel at Gilgal at once. The injunction applies to s...
AND THOU SHALT GO DOWN BEFORE ME TO GILGAL— Respecting this matter, see on chap. 1 Samuel 13:8....
_Saul Anointed by Samuel._ 1 Samuel 10:1-8 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured _it_ upon his head, and kissed him, and said, _Is it_ not because the Lord hath anointed thee _to be_ captain ove...
_AND THOU SHALT GO DOWN BEFORE ME TO GILGAL; AND, BEHOLD, I WILL COME DOWN UNTO THEE, TO OFFER BURNT OFFERINGS, AND TO SACRIFICE SACRIFICES OF PEACE OFFERINGS: SEVEN DAYS SHALT THOU TARRY, TILL I COME...
See on 1 Samuel 9:1. There are clearly two accounts of the institution of the kingship. In 1 Samuel 8, the wish for a king is regarded as a sign of disloyalty to the real King, Jehovah, and, as such,...
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 10 SAMUEL *ANOINTS SAUL V1 Then Samuel took a jar of oil and poured the oil over Saul’s head. He kissed Saul. He said, ‘The *Lord has *anoint...
AND SHEW THEE WHAT THOU SHALT DO. — Considerable doubt exists among expositors as to the exact meaning and reference of these words of Samuel. In 1 Samuel 13., 1 Samuel 10:8 and following, a well-know...
וְ יָרַדְתָּ֣ לְ פָנַי֮ הַ גִּלְגָּל֒ וְ
CHAPTER XIII. _ SAUL ANOINTED BY SAMUEL._ 1 Samuel 10:1. THERE is a remarkable minuteness of detail in this and other narratives in Samuel, suggesting the authenticity of the narrative, and the auth...
ANOINTED WITH OIL AND THE SPIRIT 1 Samuel 10:1 In the gray dawn the prophet sketched to Saul the events which were to happen on that day and succeeding days. All were made known to the designated kin...
On the morning of the day following Saul's meeting with and eating with Samuel, Samuel told him of his election by God to be king of the nation. This communication was made when they were quite alone,...
Galgal. Here also by dispensation was an altar of God. (Challoner) --- To do. Saul went thither, after the victory which he had obtained over the Ammonites, when he was confirmed in his dignity, chap....
(2) When thou art departed from me today, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are...
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...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 8, 9, AND 10. But faith is not transmitted by succession. Samuel could not make prophets of his sons. They were no better as judges than Eli's sons had been a...
AND THOU SHALL GO DOWN BEFORE ME TO GILGAL,.... Not immediately; for the first summons of the people, and of Saul, and the first meeting of them by Samuel, were at Mizpeh, where Saul was chosen by lot...
_And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, [and] to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I co...
_Seven days shalt thou tarry till I come_ This, though now mentioned and commanded, was not immediately to be performed; as is evident, partly from the whole course of the story, (which shows that Sau...
1 Samuel anoynteth Saul. 2 Hee confirmeth him by prediction of three signes. 9 Sauls heart is changed, and he prophecieth. 14 He concealeth the matter of the kingdome from his vncle. 17 Saul is ch...
And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal, in case he should be inclined to go there for the sake of bringing a sacrifice; AND, BEHOLD, I WILL COME DOWN UNTO THEE, TO OFFER BURNT OFFERINGS, AND TO SA...
SAUL ANOINTED BY SAMUEL...
No one else was present when Samuel anointed Saul. This contrasts with David's anointing in Chapter 16:3, "in the midst of his brethren," then by "the men of Judah" in 2 Samuel 2:4; and later by the e...
1-8 The sacred anointing, then used, pointed at the great Messiah, or Anointed One, the King of the church, and High Priest of our profession, who was anointed with the oil of the Spirit, not by meas...
SEVEN DAYS SHALT THOU TARRY TILL I COME TO THEE: this, though now mentioned and commanded, yet was not immediately to be performed; as is evident, partly from the whole course of the story, which show...
1 Samuel 10:8 down H3381 (H8804) before H6440 Gilgal H1537 down H3381 (H8802) offer H5927 (H8687) offerings...
SAMUEL INDICATES CERTAIN SIGNS THAT SAUL WILL RECEIVE THAT WILL DEMONSTRATE THAT IT IS AS HE HAS SAID (1 SAMUEL 10:2). Matters were not just to be left there. A deliberately private anointing having t...
CONTENTS: Saul annointed king. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Samuel, Saul, his uncle. CONCLUSION: Whom God calls He qualifies. When God works in us by His Spirit, it serves to confirm faith and furn...
1 Samuel 10:1. _Captain._ This refers to his command, as a fighting captain. The title of king was superior to that of _na_g _id,_ or captain. 1 Samuel 10:3. _To Bethel._ The people would, and did wor...
_Then Samuel took a vial of oil._ THE DISCIPLINE OF A PROMOTED LIFE Men are not usually taken from the valley of ordinary toil, and instantaneously placed, as by the flight of an angel, upon the clou...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 10:1. “THEN SAMUEL TOOK A VIAL OF OIL,” etc. “The vial is a narrow-necked vessel, from which the oil flowed in drops. The oil, we must suppose, was not of the o...
EXPOSITION SAUL ANOINTED TO BE KING, AND SIGNS GIVEN HIM CONVINCING HIM OF THE TRUTH OF HIS APPOINTMENT ...
Samuel took a vial of oil, and he poured it over Saul, over his head, and he kissed him, and he said, Is it not because the Lord has anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance? Now when you depa...
1 Samuel 11:14; 1 Samuel 11:15; 1 Samuel 13:4; 1 Samuel 13:8;...
Till I come — This, though now mentioned and commanded, was not immediately to be performed; as is evident, partly from the whole course of the story, (which shews, that Saul and Samuel, and the peopl...