1 Samuel 28:1
MEN. Hebrew. _'. enosh._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew. _'. enosh._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
SURELY. Therefore; which Achish repeats in his reply. KEEPER OF MINE HEAD: i.e. captain of my body-guard.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN RAMAH, &c. Hebrew "in Ramah and in his own city". Figure of speech _Hendiadys_ (App-6). in his own city, Ramah. HAD FAMILIAR SPIRITS. Familiar spirits are demons pretending to be dead persons; hence the word "necromancy". See notes on Leviticus 19:31 and Isaiah 8:19. WIZARDS. wise, cunning, or... [ Continue Reading ]
ENQUIRED. asked. Hebrew. _sha'al,_ to ask. Not darash, "to seek out". See note on 1 Samuel 28:7, and 1Ch 10:13, 1 Chronicles 10:14. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4. ANSWERED HIM NOT. Not likely therefore to answer now by. way He had forbidden. Samuel had been dead two years. URIM. See note on... [ Continue Reading ]
A WOMAN. Answering to the modern "mediums". HATH. owneth, possesses as mistress. See note on Leviticus 19:31. ENQUIRE. seek out. Hebrew. _darash, a_ deeper meaning than 1 Samuel 28:6. See note above. Compare 1 Chronicles 10:13; 1 Chronicles 10:14. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THE FAMILIAR SPIRIT. Hence called necromancy.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
UP. Note: not down, or forth. Compare 1 Samuel 28:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAW SAMUEL. Or, the materialisation of. deceiving spirit personating Samuel, as is done by "mediums" to-day. SHE CRIED, &c. Evidently surprised, and getting more than she expected. THOU ART SAUL. How should she know this but by. communication from the spirit.... [ Continue Reading ]
GODS. Plural of _Elohim._ Either "a god "or. spirit manifestation. OUT OF THE EARTH. Not down, or forth, as in John 11:43; John 11:44.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. Not. spirit. mantle. If. spirit, why. mantle? Samuel's spirit was with God (Ecclesiastes 12:7). And if Samuel's body, it would be with "grave-clothes" (John 11:44). PERCEIVED. understood: i.e. from what the medium said. He _saw_ nothing. STOOPED. did obeisance.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAMUEL SAID: i.e. the spirit personating Samuel said. Just as it is done in the present day by the medium: never directly. DISQUIETED. If Samuel, then it shows he was "quiet" before. ME. Not my spirit. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim_. App-4. NO MORE. Therefore certainly not by means which He had expressly... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID SAMUEL. Jehovah might have sent "a lying spirit", and given by it. true message, just as He did in 2 Chronicles 18:19. Nothing was said but what was well known before. BECOME THINE ENEMY. The Septuagint reads "and hath come to be with thy neighbour". Compare 1 Samuel 28:17 with 1 Samuel 1... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. according as. BY ME. by my hand.... [ Continue Reading ]
OBEYEDST NOT. hearkenedst not to. WRATH. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the judgment in consequence of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH ME: i.e. with the dead.... [ Continue Reading ]
FELL STRAIGHTWAY. remained motionless. Compare Acts 9:7, where "stood. SPEECHLESS. remained speechless. See Acts 26:14. The two passages TOGETHER. fell, and remained so. BREAD. food. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species). App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOUSE. shed.... [ Continue Reading ]