1 Samuel 15:1
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD OF HOSTS. See note on 1 Samuel 1:3. I REMEMBER. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia.App-6._ HOW HE LAID WAIT. Compare Exodus 17:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW GO. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "now therefore go". AMALEK. Compare Exodus 17:16; Numbers 24:20. UTTERLY DESTROY. devote to destruction. MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
TELAIM. Probably Telem (Joshua 15:24). MEN. Hebrew. _'ish.App-14._... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM. Supply Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6) thus: "[that dwell] from Havilah, "&c.... [ Continue Reading ]
KENITES. Said to be the same as the Rechabites. Go, depart. Note the Figure of speech _Asyndeton_ in 1 Samuel 15:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6) in this verse. EVERY THING THAT _ WAS_ VILE. all the stock that was worthless.... [ Continue Reading ]
IT REPENTETH ME. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. PLACE. Hebrew. hand. Either to mark his claim to the place, or. monument, as in 2 Samuel 18:18. ON. over.... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE PERFORMED. See 1 Samuel 15:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
SINNERS. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44. THEY BE CONSUMED. they have consumed them. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "thou have consumed them".... [ Continue Reading ]
OBEY. hearken to. EVIL. the evil. Hebrew. _ra`a`._ App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
OBEYED. hearkened.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO OBEY. to hearken to. TO HEARKEN. to give heed.... [ Continue Reading ]
SIN. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44. WITCHCRAFT. divination or necromancy; i.e. dealings with spirits. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'aven._ App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
TRANSGRESSED. Hebrew. _`abar._ App-44. COMMANDMENT. Hebrew "mouth", put by Fig, _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for what is spoken by it. WORDS. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "word".... [ Continue Reading ]
HE. Saul. HIS. Samuel's. Compare 1 Kings 11:30; 1 Kings 11:31.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE STRENGTH. the Eternal One. First occurrence. Hebrew. _nezah._. Divine title. REPENT: i.e. as God, though He is said to do so by the Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. A MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
DELICATELY. in fetters (Job 38:31). Septuagint has "trembling"; Vulgate has "sleek and trembling".... [ Continue Reading ]
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).... [ Continue Reading ]
NO MORE. Compare 1 Samuel 16:1 1 Samuel 16:14. 1 Samuel 19:23. SAMUEL MOURNED: i.e. as for one dead. We do not read that Saul mourned for himself.... [ Continue Reading ]