Verse 1 Samuel 10:24. God save the king.] יחי המלך There is no such word here; no, nor in the whole Bible; nor is it countenanced by any of the versions. The words which we thus translate here and elsewhere are simply yechi hammelech, "May the king live; " and so all the versions, the Targum excepted, which says, May the king prosper! The French Vive le roi! is a proper version of the Hebrew.
3. THE OPEN ACCLAMATION OF SAUL AS KING CHAPTER 10:17-27 _ 1. The lot at Mizpeh (1 Samuel 10:17)_ 2. The acclamation of the King (1 Samuel 10:22) Samuel called once more a national gathering at Miz...
SAUL ELECTED KING BY LOT. Continues Deuteronomic narrative, sequel to 1 Samuel 8 (see above). 1 SAMUEL 10:17 A (TO OVER US). Sequel to 1 Samuel 8 f. Samuel calls an assembly unto Yahweh to Mizpah, _i...
SEE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. GOD SAVE THE KING. Hebrew Let the king live. An idiom which includes the desire that he might have everything that makes life worth living, including also...
_that there is none like him among all the people_ Stress is again laid on Saul's imposing stature as a natural qualification for his office. He was "a princely person and of a majestic aspect." See n...
The Public election of Saul as King The thread of the narrative in ch. 8, which has been temporarily dropped in order to give an account of the circumstances by which Samuel was privately made acquai...
_Saul Acclaimed by the People._ 1 Samuel 10:17-27 17 And Samuel called the people together unto the Lord _to_ Mizpeh; 18 And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I br...
_AND SAID UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, I BROUGHT UP ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT, AND DELIVERED YOU OUT OF THE HAND OF THE EGYPTIANS, AND OUT OF THE HAND OF ALL KINGDOMS, AND...
See on 1 Samuel 9:1. There are clearly two accounts of the institution of the kingship. In 1 Samuel 8, the wish for a king is regarded as a sign of disloyalty to the real King, Jehovah, and, as such,...
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 10 SAMUEL *ANOINTS SAUL V1 Then Samuel took a jar of oil and poured the oil over Saul’s head. He kissed Saul. He said, ‘The *Lord has *anoint...
וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵ֜ל אֶל ־כָּל ־הָ עָ֗ם
CHAPTER XIV. _ SAUL CHOSEN KING_ 1 Samuel 10:17. WHEN first the desire to have a king came to a height with the people, they had the grace to go to Samuel, and endeavour to arrange the matter throug...
THE PEOPLE HAVE THEIR DESIRE 1 Samuel 10:14 Samuel dealt faithfully with the people, reminding them once more of their guilty mistake in demanding a king; and indeed they came to rue their choice. Bu...
On the morning of the day following Saul's meeting with and eating with Samuel, Samuel told him of his election by God to be king of the nation. This communication was made when they were quite alone,...
_King. Our favourite song, "God save," &c., is an amplification of this sentiment. (Haydock)_...
(23) And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward. (24) And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him who...
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...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 8, 9, AND 10. But faith is not transmitted by succession. Samuel could not make prophets of his sons. They were no better as judges than Eli's sons had been a...
AND SAMUEL SAID TO ALL THE PEOPLE, SEE YE HIM WHOM THE LORD HATH CHOSEN,.... For the choice being made by lot, the disposal of which is of the Lord, it is properly attributed to him, and the people co...
_And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that [there is] none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king._ Ver. 24. _God s...
1 Samuel anoynteth Saul. 2 Hee confirmeth him by prediction of three signes. 9 Sauls heart is changed, and he prophecieth. 14 He concealeth the matter of the kingdome from his vncle. 17 Saul is ch...
And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the Lord hath chosen, the election being the confirmation of the previous divine choice, THAT THERE IS NONE LIKE HIM AMONG ALL THE PEOPLE? AND ALL TH...
SAUL CHOSEN KING BY LOT...
No one else was present when Samuel anointed Saul. This contrasts with David's anointing in Chapter 16:3, "in the midst of his brethren," then by "the men of Judah" in 2 Samuel 2:4; and later by the e...
GOD SAVE THE KING: _ Heb._ let the king live...
17-27 Samuel tells the people, Ye have this day rejected your God. So little fond was Saul now of that power, which soon after, when he possessed it, he could not think of parting with, that he hid h...
THERE IS NONE LIKE HIM AMONG ALL THE PEOPLE; as to the height of his bodily stature, which was in itself commendable in a king, and some kind of indication of great endowments of mind. GOD SAVE THE KI...
1 Samuel 10:24 Samuel H8050 said H559 (H8799) people H5971 see H7200 (H8804) LORD H3068 chosen H977 ...
SAMUEL PUBLICLY DEMONSTRATES WHOM YHWH HAS CHOSEN TO BE THEIR KING BY USING THE SACRED LOT, AND SAUL IS ACCLAIMED AS KING (1 SAMUEL 10:17). The private preparation of the young man Saul for his role a...
CONTENTS: Saul annointed king. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Samuel, Saul, his uncle. CONCLUSION: Whom God calls He qualifies. When God works in us by His Spirit, it serves to confirm faith and furn...
1 Samuel 10:1. _Captain._ This refers to his command, as a fighting captain. The title of king was superior to that of _na_g _id,_ or captain. 1 Samuel 10:3. _To Bethel._ The people would, and did wor...
_And Samuel called the people together unto the Lord to Mizpeh._ THE PUBLIC RECOGNITION OF INCIPIENT KINGSHIP Long enough had Saul been in the Divine studio, and fashioned by heavenly forces, his na...
_There is none like him among the people._ THE CHOICE YOUNG MAN AND GOODLY There are two forms in which the man who is steering his vessel over the perilous ocean may ascertain the course which he sh...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 10:24 LONG LIVE THE KING! At last Saul is publicly and officially presented and accepted by the people as the king. Here Samuel says that THE LORD HAS CHOSEN Saul,
1 Samuel 10:22. “THEY INQUIRED OF THE LORD … AND THE LORD ANSWERED.” “The inquiry was made through the high priest, by means of the Urim and Thummim. There can be no doubt that in a gathering of the p...
EXPOSITION PUBLIC SELECTION OF SAUL AS KING (1 Samuel 10:17-9). 1 SAMUEL 10:17 SAMUEL CALLED THE PEOPLE TOGETHER UNTO JEHOVAH TO MIZPEH. For the
Samuel took a vial of oil, and he poured it over Saul, over his head, and he kissed him, and he said, Is it not because the Lord has anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance? Now when you depa...
1 Kings 1:21; 1 Kings 1:25; 1 Kings 1:39; 2 Kings 11:12; 2 Samuel 21:6
None like him — As to the height of his bodily stature, which was in itself, commendable in a king, and some kind of indication of great endowments of mind. God save the king — Heb. let the king live;...