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Verse 1 Samuel 14:48. _SMOTE THE AMALEKITES._] This war is mentioned
in the following chapter....
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7. JONATHAN'S HEROIC DEED OF FAITH
CHAPTER 14
_ 1. Jonathan's victory (1 Samuel 14:1)_
2. Saul's adjuration and Jonathan's deed (1 Samuel 14:24)
3. Saul's first altar and unanswered inquiry ...
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In this section the editor gives a concluding summary concerning Saul
as king, before narrating his deposition in the next chapter. In the
editor's eyes, Saul ceased to be king _de jure,_ when Samuel...
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AN HOST. Hebrew "power". Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct),
App-6, put for the army which manifested the power. Or, it may be
rendered "he wrought mightily"....
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_gathered a host_ Better, DID VALIANTLY, as in Numbers 24:18; Psalms
40:12.
_smote the Amalekites_ As recorded at length in ch. 15....
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Summary account of Saul's wars and family
47. _So Saul took the kingdom_ The various wars undertaken by Saul
whom the people elected king "to go out before them and fight their
battles" are here summa...
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_Saul's Other Battles and His Family._ 1 Samuel 14:47-52
47 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his
enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of
Ammon, an...
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_AND HE GATHERED AN HOST, AND SMOTE THE AMALEKITES, AND DELIVERED
ISRAEL OUT OF THE HANDS OF THEM THAT SPOILED THEM._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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14:48 valiantly, (c-4) Or 'gathered a force,' 'formed an army.'...
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JONATHAN'S EXPLOIT. THE BATTLE OF MICHMASH. A SUMMARY OF SAUL'S REIGN
3. Ahiah] RV 'Ahijah,' probably merely another form of Ahimelech (1
Samuel 21:1). Melech (king) was one of the titles of Jah or J...
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GATHERED AN HOST] RV 'did valiantly.'...
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 14
V1 A young man carried Jonathan’s *armour. Jonathan was Saul’s
son. One day, Jonathan said to the young man, ‘Let us go across to
the *Phil...
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וַ יַּ֣עַשׂ חַ֔יִל וַ יַּ֖ךְ אֶת
־עֲמָלֵ֑ק
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CHAPTER XX
_ SAUL'S WILFULNESS._
1 Samuel 14:24.
THAT Saul was now suffering in character under the influence of the
high position and great power to which he had been raised, is only too
apparent f...
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THE MAN WHO WROUGHT WITH GOD RESCUED
1 Samuel 14:36
In this case the voice of the people was the voice of God. If a man
dares to stand alone with God, he cannot be put to shame. If he says
of the Lor...
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Here we have a picture of Saul, with a part of the army about him,
remaining idle in Gibeah. His son Jonathan moved to action by his
sense of the degradation of his people, and his conviction of the
s...
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And he gathered an host, and smote the (t) Amalekites, and delivered
Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
(t) As the Lord had commanded, (Deuteronomy 25:17)....
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_Amalec. The particulars of this war will be given [in] chap. xv., as
it explains the cause of Saul's rejection, and David's advancement to
the throne. (Salien)_...
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(47) В¶ So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all
his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of
Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and a...
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We have already seen that the desire and deliberate decision of the
people for a king was a direct blow at the government of God in
Israel; but the time was come to permit the will of the people to ha...
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But faith in God is always blest; and if God has shewn the effect of
unbelief, He also shews its folly, since wherever faith is found,
there all His strength is displayed; and then it is the enemy who...
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AND HE GATHERED AN HOST,.... A large army; for after the battle with
the Ammonites he disbanded his army, and sent them home, retaining
only 3000 men, and these deserted him to six hundred, which were...
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And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered
Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
Ver. 48. _And he gathered a host,_] See on 1 Samuel 14:47 .
_ And delivered Israel...
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_Saul took the kingdom_ That is, resumed the administration of it,
after he had, in a manner, lost it by the Philistines, who had almost
got the entire possession of it, and enslaved Israel. _And foug...
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1 Ionathan, vnwitting to his father, the Priest, or the people, goeth
and miraculously smiteth the Philistines garrison.
15 A diuine terrour maketh them beate themselues.
17 Saul not staying the Pri...
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And he gathered an host, he increased in strength and made his power
felt, AND SMOTE THE AMALEKITES, the desert tribes in the South, AND
DELIVERED ISRAEL OUT OF THE HANDS OF THEM THAT SPOILED THEM, ma...
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Saul's Campaigns...
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The Philistines seemed content to intimidate Israel with their
tremendous show of strength, rather than to attack Saul. One man,
however, is not to be intimidated. Jonathan, in the face of Philistine...
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GATHERED AN HOST:
Or, wrought mightily...
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47-52 Here is a general account of Saul's court and camp. He had
little reason to be proud of his royal dignity, nor had any of his
neighbours cause to envy him, for he had but little enjoyment after...
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SMOTE THE AMALEKITES; which is here mentioned only in the general, but
is particularly described in the next chapter....
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1 Samuel 14:48 gathered H6213 (H8799) army H2428 attacked H5221
(H8686) Amalekites H6002 delivered H5337 (H8686)
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A SUMMARY OF SAUL'S EARLIER REIGN AND ITS SUCCESSES AND OF HIS CLOSE
FAMILY (1 SAMUEL 14:47).
Having demonstrated both Saul's partial success, mainly through the
faith of Jonathan, and his partial fai...
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1 Samuel 14
These were evil days for the people of Israel. But it was in these
dark days that Jonathan shone so famous. It is yet true that
difficulties prove our mettle, and that the greater the har...
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CONTENTS: Jonathan's great victory over the Philistines.
CHARACTERS: God, Jonathan, armor-bearer, Saul, Ahiah, Abner.
CONCLUSION: Let this strengthen the weak and encourage the timid, that
no matter...
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1 Samuel 14:2. _Under a pomegranate tree._ רמן _Rimmon,_ a rock in
the tribe of Judah. Joshua 15:32; Judges 20:47. This reading agrees
best with the position of Saul's army, in a place of safety....
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_And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured
the people._
GREAT ISSUES HANG ON A KING’S RASH WORD
One little sentence, spoken in a moment of passion by King Henry the
Second,...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 14:1 This chapter focuses on Saul’s son
Jonathan, who will become a friend of David. Jonathan’s act of trust
in this chapter is sandwiched between two examples of Saul’s
diso...
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1 Samuel 14:47. “SO SAUL TOOK THE KINGDOM.” “As Saul had first
of all secured a recognition of himself as king on the part of all the
tribes of Israel by his victories over the Ammonites at Jabesh (1...
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EXPOSITION
JONATHAN'S DANGER AND DELIVERANCE (1 Samuel 14:36-9).
1 SAMUEL 14:36
LET US GO DOWN AFTER THE PHILISTINES BY NIGHT. Saul, conscious that he
had prevented the victory f
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EXPOSITION
JONATHAN SMITES THE PHILISTINE GAR-BISON (1 Samuel 14:1).
1 SAMUEL 14:1
NOW IT CAME TO PASS UPON A DAY. Literally, "And there was a day, and
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Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to
the young man that bear his armour, Come, and let us go over to the
Philistines' garrison on the other side. But he did not tell h...
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1 Samuel 15:3; Deuteronomy 25:19; Exodus 17:14...