Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
1 Samuel 25:1
lamented. As for. second Moses. Compare Jeremiah 15:1.
in. by, or near.
down. Topography here is most exact. It is. continuous descent to the Negeb for more than. day's journey.
lamented. As for. second Moses. Compare Jeremiah 15:1.
in. by, or near.
down. Topography here is most exact. It is. continuous descent to the Negeb for more than. day's journey.
CHAPTER XXV _The death of Samuel_, 1. _The history of Nabal, and his churlishness towards David and_ _his men_, 2-12. _David, determining to punish him, is appeased by Abigail,_ _Nabal's wife_, 1...
IN HIS HOUSE AT RAMAH - Probably in the court or garden attached to his dwelling-house. (Compare 2 Chronicles 33:20; 2 Kings 21:18; John 19:41.) The wil
CHAPTER 25 _ 1. The death of Samuel (1 Samuel 25:1)_ 2. Nabal and his refusal (1 Samuel 25:2) 3. Abigail's deed and her prayer (1 Samuel 25:14) 4. David's answer to Abigail ...
1 SAMUEL 25:1 A. (TO RAMAH). DEATH AND BURIAL OF SAMUEL. (An editorial addition.) 1 SAMUEL 25:1. IN HIS HOUSE: in the grounds belonging to it. 1 Samuel 25:1 b -...
1 Samuel 25:1. Samuel's death and burial 1. _all the Israelites_, &c. A public mourning was held as after the death of Moses (Deuteronomy 34:8), and the whole nation met to do honour to him, who for w...
AND SAMUEL DIED— This great prophet was in the ninety-seventh or ninety-eighth year of his age: he had ruled sixteen, or, as others think, twenty years before the reign of Saul, and judged the Israeli...
David's Continued Flight, 1 Samuel 25:1 to 1 Samuel 26:25. _The Death of Samuel._ 1 Samuel 25:1 And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his...
_AND SAMUEL DIED; AND ALL THE ISRAELITES WERE GATHERED TOGETHER, AND LAMENTED HIM, AND BURIED HIM IN HIS HOUSE AT RAMAH. AND DAVID AROSE, AND WENT DOWN TO THE WILDERNESS OF PARAN._ Samuel died - afte...
DEATH OF SAMUEL. THE INCIDENT OF NABAL. DAVID AND ABIGAIL 1. Paran] That part of the desert between Sinai and Palestine which bordered on Judah....
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 25 SAMUEL THE *PROPHET DIES V1 Samuel died. All the *Israelites met together and were very sad. Then they buried Samuel in his home town of Ra...
AND SAMUEL DIED. — At this period — namely, about the time when Saul and David met at En-gedi — died Samuel, full of years and honour — perhaps rather than _honours,_ for a long time the old prophet h...
וַ יָּ֣מָת שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל וַ יִּקָּבְצ֤וּ כָל ־יִ
CHAPTER XXXII. _ DAVID AND NABAL._ 1 Samuel 25:1. WE should be forming far too low an estimate of the character of the people of Israel if we did not believe that they were very profoundly moved by...
KINDNESS WAKENS A BETTER SPIRIT 1 Samuel 24:16; 1 Samuel 25:1 David's noble self-restraint, followed as it was by no less noble words, awoke the best side of Saul's nature. Chords began to vibrate th...
We now have the account of Samuel's death. Notwithstanding all Israel's failure to realize his high ideals, it was impossible that they should not recognize his greatness, and it is easy to believe th...
And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his (a) house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. (a) That is, amo...
Samuel died. The Rabbins say four months before Saul. (Seder, olam 13.) (Tirinus) --- Others believe about two years; and suppose that he was 98 years old, twenty of which he had been judge: (Calmet)...
CONTENTS This Chapter contains a great variety of contents, in its relation. Here is an account of the death of Samuel; the character and behaviour of Nabal towards David; the sin-preventing providen...
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...
At length Samuel dies. This forms an epoch, because he who was the true link between the people and God was gone. Israel acknowledged him when dead, although they had despised him while living. And no...
AND SAMUEL DIED,.... In the interval, when Saul and David were parted, and before they saw each other again; according to the Jewish chronology g, Samuel died four months before Saul; but other Jewish...
And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. Ver. 1. _And Samuel...
_And Samuel died_ According to the best chronologers, he governed Israel after the death of Eli sixteen years or upward, and lived about forty years after in the reign of Saul; _and all the Israelites...
1 Samuel dieth. 2 Dauid in Paran sendeth to Nabal. 10 Prouoked by Nabals churlishnesse, hee mindeth to destroy him. 14 Abigail vnderstanding thereof, 18 taketh a present, 23 and by her wisedome...
And Samuel died, his death taking place at about this critical time in the history of Israel; AND ALL THE ISRAELITES WERE GATHERED TOGETHER, AND LAMENTED HIM, AND BURIED HIM IN HIS HOUSE AT RAMAH, the...
Nabal's Foolishness...
David's moral victory over Saul and over his own natural instincts has been most admirable. However, in this chapter we see him showing just the opposite attitude. It seems hardly possible that this c...
1 All Israel lamented Samuel, and they had reason. He prayed daily for them. Those have hard hearts, who can bury faithful ministers without grief; who do not feel their loss of those who have prayed...
1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 25 Samuel dieth: David goeth to the wilderness of Paran, 1 SAMUEL 25:1. Nabal's riches, 1 SAMUEL 25:2. His and his wife Abigail's nature and condition, 1 SAMUEL 25:3. David requesteth...
1 Samuel 25:1-44:1 Samuel H8050 died H4191 (H8799) Israelites H3478 together H6908 (H8735) lamented H5594 (H87
THE END OF A PROPHET AND AN INTRODUCTION TO A FOOL (1 SAMUEL 25:1). The death of Samuel introduces a period of folly, possibly in order to bring out what the loss of his influence resulted in. This pe...
CONTENTS: Samuel's death; David and Nabal. Abigail becomes David's wife, and also Ahinoam. CHARACTERS: God, David, Samuel, Nabal, Abigail. CONCLUSION: Let the believer be encouraged to commit his ca...
1 Samuel 25:1. _Samuel died,_ four months, say the rabbins, before the death of Saul. The elders of the nation from all the tribes attended, to behold the glory of a setting sun, which left its lustre...
_And Samuel died, and all the Israelites were gathered together and lamented him._ “WHEN I DIE, WILL I BE MISSED?” “And Samuel died; and all Israel lamented him.” What an epitaph! What a character to...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 25:1 Samuel died and was buried IN HIS HOUSE. Burial in a house was common in some ancient cultures, though unusual in Israel. Perhaps David went to PARAN because he feared t...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 25:1. “AND SAMUEL DIED.” Josephus says that “Samuel governed and presided over the people alone, after the death of Eli, twelve years, and eighteen years in con...
EXPOSITION DEATH OF SAMUEL (1 Samuel 25:1). 1 SAMUEL 25:1 AND SAMUEL DIED. According to Josephus, Samuel had for eighteen years been contemporaneous with Saul's kingdom. If this calculation, which p...
Now Samuel died; and all of the Israelites were gathered together, and lamenting him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. And there wa...
1 Kings 2:34; 1 Samuel 28:3; 1 Samuel 7:17; 2 Chronicles 33:20; Acts 8
Lamented him — Those have hard hearts, that can bury their faithful ministers with dry eyes, and are not sensible of the loss of them who have prayed for them, and taught them the way of the Lord....