1 Samuel 15:33 Samuel H8050 said H559 (H8799) sword H2719 women H802 childless H7921 (H8765) mother H517 childless H7921 (H8799) women H802 Samuel H8050 hacked H8158 Agag H90 pieces H8158 (H8762) before H6440 LORD H3068 Gilgal H1537
As thy sword - Genesis 9:6; Exodus 17:11; Numbers 14:45; Judges 1:7; Matthew 7:2; James 2:13; Revelation 16:6, Revelation 18:6
hewed - Numbers 25:7-8; 1 Kings 18:40; Isaiah 34:6; Jeremiah 48:10
Verse 1 Samuel 15:33. _AS THY SWORD HATH MADE WOMEN CHILDLESS_] It appears that Agag had forfeited his life by his own personal transgressions, and that his death now was the retribution of his cruelt...
HEWED IN PIECES - Only found in this passage. Samuel thus executed the חרם _chērem_ 1 Samuel 15:3 which Saul had violated, and so both saved the nation from the guilt of a broken oath, and gave a fin...
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 ...
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...
AS. according as. HEWED: i.e. commanded him to be hewed or cut asunder after death. Verb occurs only here. AGAG. See note on Amalek (Exodus 17:16, and Compare 1 Samuel 15:3)....
The execution of Agag. Samuel's departure 32. _delicately_ Rather, CHEERFULLY: not fearing any harm from the aged prophet, as the king had spared his life. But the meaning of the word is very doubtfu...
_As thy sword_, &c. By the law of retaliation Agag's life was forfeit. Cp. Judges 1:7. _hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord_ A solemn execution of the Divine sentence which Saul had neglected. The wo...
AND AGAG CAME UNTO HIM DELICATELY, &C.— Houbigant renders this, _Agag came to him from his bonds, and said, How bitter is death!_ for his justification of which version we refer to his note. It is unc...
_Samuel and Saul Parted Permanently._ 1 Samuel 15:24-35 24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words: because I feared the people, an...
_AND SAMUEL SAID, AS THY SWORD HATH MADE WOMEN CHILDLESS, SO SHALL THY MOTHER BE CHILDLESS AMONG WOMEN. AND SAMUEL HEWED AGAG IN PIECES BEFORE THE LORD IN GILGAL._ Samuel hewed Agag. This cruel tyran...
15:33 above (g-17) Or 'among.'...
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...
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...
SAMUEL HEWED AGAG IN PIECES. — It has been suggested, with some probability, that these words refer to a peculiar form of putting to death, like the quartering in vogue during the Middle Ages....
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל כַּ אֲשֶׁ֨ר שִׁכְּלָ֤ה...
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...
SHALLOW REPENTANCE UNAVAILING 1 Samuel 15:17 Samuel was deeply moved when he heard of Saul's failure, “and he cried unto the Lord all night.” Thus he was prepared to accost the sinful king. Mr. Finne...
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...
_Pieces. Josephus adds, by the hand of others. (Menochius) --- But zeal put the sword into his own hand; and he imitated the Levites and Phinees, (Exodus xxxii. 27.) to shew Saul how preposterous had...
(32) В¶ Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past. (33) And Samuel said, As thy...
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...
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...
AND SAMUEL SAID, AS THY SWORD HATH MADE WOMEN CHILDLESS,.... Or, "bereaved s" them, not of their children only, but of their husbands also, and so made them both childless and widows; by which it appe...
And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal. Ver. 33. _As thy sword hath made wome...
_Agag came unto him delicately_ Hebrew, מעדנת, _magnadannoth, in delights_, or _ornaments;_ that is, he came not like an offender, expecting the sentence of death, but in the garb, and gesture, and ma...
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...
And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women; he was but receiving his just reward for his cruelties. AND SAMUEL HEWED AGAG IN PIECES BEFORE TH...
Saul's Humiliation...
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...
32-35 Many think the bitterness of death is past when it is not gone by; they put that evil day far from them, which is very near. Samuel calls Agag to account for his own sins. He followed the examp...
THY SWORD HATH MADE WOMEN CHILDLESS; whereby it appears that he was a cruel tyrant, and guilty of really bloody actions, and that towards God's people, though it be not related elsewhere. And this see...
SAMUEL COMPLETES WHAT SAUL HAD FAILED TO COMPLETE (1 SAMUEL 15:32). Samuel recognised that what had been devoted to YHWH must be given to him, and so he calls for Agag to be brought and executes him....
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...
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...
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...
_And Samuel hewed Agag to pieces before the Lord in Gilgal._ THE VINDICTIVE JUSTICE OF GOD God, who viewed Agag as an enemy to Himself and to His people, would not release him from the punishment he...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 15:1 The Lord finally rejects Saul as king. ⇐ ⇔...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 15:32 BRING HERE TO ME AGAG. Samuel himself takes on the task that Saul failed to finish. HACKED... TO PIECES was not the normal means of putting to death. Usually slaying...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 15:25. “PARDON MY SIN.” “He offers this prayer to _Samuel_, not to _God_.” “TURN AGAIN WITH ME.” “According to 1 Samuel 15:30, to show him honour before the eld...
FINAL REJECTION OF SAUL (1 Samuel 15:1.) EXPOSITION DIVINE COMMAND TO PUNISH THE AMALEKITES, AND ITS EXECUTION BY SAUL ...
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...
1 Kings 18:40; Exodus 17:11; Genesis 9:6; Isaiah 34:6; James 2:13;...
As, &c. — Whereby it appears, that he was a tyrant, and guilty of many bloody actions. And this seems to be added for the fuller vindication of God's justice, and to shew, that although God did at thi...