Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
1 Samuel 28:11
He said, Bring me up Samuel As he had formerly experienced Samuel's kindness and compassion, so now he expected it in his deep distress.
He said, Bring me up Samuel As he had formerly experienced Samuel's kindness and compassion, so now he expected it in his deep distress.
Verse 1 Samuel 28:11. _WHOM SHALL I BRING UP_] The woman certainly meant no more than making her _familiar_ personify whomsoever the querist should wish. In the evocation of spirits this is all that,...
BRING ME UP SAMUEL - Dr. Trench observes, “All human history has failed to record a despair deeper or more tragic than his, who, having forsaken God and being of God forsaken, is now seeking to move h...
7. SAUL AND THE WITCH AT ENDOR CHAPTER 28 _ 1. David fully joined to Achish (1 Samuel 28:1)_ 2. Forsaken Saul (1 Samuel 28:3) 3. The command to seek a witch (1 Samuel 28:7) 4. Saul's visit t
1 SAMUEL 28:2 is continued by 1 Samuel 29:1; the _connexion is_ broken by the insertion of 1 SAMUEL 28:3. SAUL AND THE WITCH OF ENDOR. This section interrupts the connexion; moreover, it would come n...
UP. Note: not down, or forth. Compare 1 Samuel 28:13....
Saul resorts to the witch of Endor 3. _Now Samuel_, &c. From 1 Samuel 28:3 to the end of the chapter is an independent narrative. 1 Samuel 28:3 states by way of introduction certain facts as the key t...
_Bring me up Samuel_ From _Sheol_, the realm of departed spirits, which is always spoken of as beneath the earth. The nature of the transaction here recorded is discussed in Additional Note VIII. on p...
THEN SAID SAUL—SEEK ME A WOMAN THAT HATH A FAMILIAR SPIRIT— Utterly forsaken of God, yet anxiously desirous of searching into futurity, Saul, who had prayed to God to no purpose, now resolved to apply...
Saul Seeks the Witch of En-dor. 1 Samuel 28:7-14 7 Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to hi...
_THEN SAID THE WOMAN, WHOM SHALL I BRING UP UNTO THEE? AND HE SAID, BRING ME UP SAMUEL._ Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? - i:e., evoke from Sheol, Hades, the invisible subterran...
SAUL AND THE WITCH OF ENDOR 1 Samuel 28:3 come from another document and interrupt the connexion, as will be seen if the account is read without them. In order of time their proper position is after 1...
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 28 V1 Later, the *Philistines gathered their army to fight the *Israelites. Achish said to David, ‘You must realise that you and your men must...
BRING ME UP SAMUEL. — A remarkable passage in the Babylonian Talmud evidently shows that, at all events in the Rabbinical Schools of a very early date, the bringing up of Samuel was looked upon as owi...
וַ תֹּ֨אמֶר֙ הָֽ אִשָּׁ֔ה אֶת ־מִ֖י אַֽעֲלֶה
CHAPTER XXXIV. _ SAUL AT ENDOR._ 1 Samuel 28:3. FOR a considerable time Saul had been drifting along like a crippled vessel at sea, a melancholy example of a man forsaken of God. But as his decisive...
RESORTING TO A FAMILIAR SPIRIT 1 Samuel 28:1 This chapter records the climax to which Saul's sins led, and which sealed his fate. See 1 Chronicles 10:13. He went back to that which he had put away an...
It is strange how this story has been made to serve in defense of things occult, which, as a matter of fact, it condemns. Let it be carefully read, and it becomes perfectly patent that this woman had...
Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up (e) Samuel. (e) He speaks according to his gross ignorance not considering the state of the saints after this life, and...
_Samuel. Here we behold the antiquity of necromancy, which is a proof that people believed the soul's immortality; animas responsa daturas. (Horace, i. sat. 8.) (Calmet) --- Protestants sometimes deny...
(8) And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and b...
We enter now on a portion of David's history sensibly different from what we have already had, which closed with the efforts of Jonathan to restore matters and to attach Saul to him at least openly. J...
Saul, as well as Israel at present, was in a still worse position, having succour neither from God nor from the enemy. Saul is forsaken of God. Samuel is dead; so that Israel is no longer in connectio...
THEN SAID THE WOMAN, WHOM SHALL I BRING UP UNTO THEE?.... For such persons, according to their profession, pretended they were able to bring up any of the dead, that he who inquired of them should nam...
Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel. Ver. 11. _Bring me up Samuel,_] _i.e., _ _Spectrum Samuelis,_ an apparition of Saumel. Saul neglected to hearken...
1 Achish putteth confidence in Dauid. 3 Saul hauing destroyed the witches, 4 and now in his feare forsaken of God, 7 seeketh to a witch. 9 The witch, encouraged by Saul, raiseth vp Samuel. 15 Sau...
Then said the woman, satisfied that she was now safe, WHOM SHALL I BRING UP UNTO THEE? AND HE SAID, BRING ME UP SAMUEL, the words indicating the common belief that the dead were in a place somewhere b...
THE CONSULTATION WITH THE WITCH...
The inevitable conflict between Israel and the Philistines arises again, and David finds himself in an unpleasant situation Achish tells him that he and his men must accompany Achish to fight against...
7-19 When we go from the plain path of duty, every thing draws us further aside, and increases our perplexity and temptation. Saul desires the woman to bring one from the dead, with whom he wished to...
Whose kindness and compassion to him, as he had formerly experienced, so now he expected it in his deep distress. This practice of divination by the dead, or by the ghosts or souls of dead persons, ca...
1 Samuel 28:11 woman H802 said H559 (H8799) up H5927 (H8686) said H559 (H8799) up H5927 ...
SAUL CONSULTS A NECROMANCER AND SAMUEL APPEARS TO HIM (1 SAMUEL 28:3). Having been unable to obtain any response from God, Saul, in desperation, determined to turn to a necromancer. It would, however,...
CONTENTS: David among Israel's enemies. Saul consults the witch. CHARACTERS: God, David, Saul, Samuel, Achish, witch. CONCLUSION: Seek the Lord while He may be found for there is a time when He will...
1 Samuel 28:4. _Shunem,_ in the tribe of Issachar, not far from mount Hermon. 1 Samuel 28:7. _A woman that hath a familiar spirit:_ a mistress of OB. See Deuteronomy 18:11. The LXX read _pythoness,_ a...
_Bring me up Samuel._ SAMUEL AFTER DEATH Wise reasons must have prevailed with God for the appearance of Samuel. Dr. Hales has suggested the three following: 1. To make Saul’s crime the instrument...
_Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit._ SAUL AND THE WITCH OF ENDOR This narrative is unlike any other in the Bible, and therefore, as might have been expected, has received various explanati...
_The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel._ NIGHT PRECEDING BATTLE As the flash of lightning reveals the hidden scenery around, so the reception of momentous n...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 28:3 The story now shifts to King Saul’s visit to the medium at En-dor and returns to David and the Philistines in 1 Samuel 29:1. Saul faces overwhelming odds as the Philis
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 28:1. “KNOW THOU ASSUREDLY.” Some expositors regard these words of Achish as designed to try David: others think they express the entire confidence which the k...
DOWNFALL AND DEATH OF SAUL (CHS. 28-31.) THE PHILISTINES GATHER TOGETHER FOR WAR. DISTRESS OF SAUL, AND VISIT TO THE WITCH OF...
So it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said to David, Know assuredly, that you shall go out to battle with...
Samuel — Whose kindness and compassion as he had formerly experienced, so now he expected it in his deep distress. This practice of divination by the dead, or the souls of dead persons, was very usual...