1 Samuel 13:2
MEN. Septuagint reads this word in text. MOUNT. hill country. EVERY MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Septuagint reads this word in text. MOUNT. hill country. EVERY MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
JONATHAN. See note on 1 Samuel 18:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
GILGAL. In the plain of Jordan, east of Jericho, good for water, remote from Philistines, and connected with sacred memories.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIRTY THOUSAND... SIX, &c. Multiples of six. See App-10. AS THE SAND, &c. Figure of speech _Parcemia._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew. _'ish._. App-14. DISTRESSED. pressed: i.e. into Saul's service. and. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HEBREWS WENT OVER. Figure of speech _Paronomasia (Revelation 6; Revelation 6_), _`ibrim `abru._... [ Continue Reading ]
HAD APPOINTED. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, and Septuagint, read "said". Some codices read "appointed".... [ Continue Reading ]
OFFERED. offered up. See App-43.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos.App-6._ SALUTE. bless.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. A. the.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU HAST NOT. Some codices, with three early printed editions, and Vulgate, read "and hast". Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read "because thou HAST". GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim_. App-4. THY KINGDOM. This possible only with God. sovereign.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN, &c. Hebrew. _'ish_. App-14. Quoted in Acts 13:22. OWN HEART. his own pleasure. Compare Psalms 89:20; Psalms 89:21. CAPTAIN. leader, or representative.... [ Continue Reading ]
GILGAL. The Septuagint preserves _a Homceoteleuton_ here, adding after "Gilgal [and the rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the army when they arrived from] Gilgal "; the eye of the scribe going back to this last "Gilgal" instead of to the one in 1 Samuel 13:15. PRESENT. found. MEN. Hebr... [ Continue Reading ]
GIBEAH. Probably the Geba of 1 Samuel 13:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
NO SMITH. This explains why Ehud had to make his own dagger (Judges 3:16); why Shamgar had only an ox-goad (Judges 3:31); why Samson "had nothingin his hand" (Judges 14:5); and why "not. shield or spear among 40,000 in Israel" (Judges 5:9). In other days we read of how many "drew sword". LAND. Some... [ Continue Reading ]
COULTER. Anglo-Saxon. _a cutter;_ hence,. plough-share. MATTOCK. a kind of pickaxe, with broad instead of pointed ends.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH SAUL. with those who were with Saul and Jonathan:. picked force.... [ Continue Reading ]
GARRISON. post, or permanent camp. PASSAGE. pass.... [ Continue Reading ]