Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
1 Samuel 15:5
Verse 1 Samuel 15:5. Saul came to a city of Amalek] I believe the original should be translated, and Saul came to the city Amalek; their capital being called by the name of their tribe.
Verse 1 Samuel 15:5. Saul came to a city of Amalek] I believe the original should be translated, and Saul came to the city Amalek; their capital being called by the name of their tribe.
8. WAR WITH AMALEK: SAUL'S DISOBEDIENCE AND REJECTION CHAPTER 15 _ 1. The commission to destroy Amalek (1 Samuel 15:1)_ 2. Saul's disobedience and rejection (1 Samuel 15:10) 3. Saul's confession ...
XV. THE WAR AGAINST AMALEK; SAUL'S DISOBEDIENCE AND DEPOSITION (E). - A section of a secondary narrative; according to the scheme adopted here, the last section of this document was 1 Samuel 3:3 to 1...
_a city of Amalek_ Perhaps the capital or chief settlement was simply called _Ir-Amalek_= "the city of Amalek," as Rabbah was called _Ar_or _Ir-Moab_= "the city of Moab" (Numbers 21:28; Numbers 22:36)...
The Lord's Rejection of Saul, 1 Samuel 15:1-35. _Saul Sent Against the Amalekites._ 1 Samuel 15:1-6 Samuel also said unto Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint thee _to be_ king over his people, over Isr...
_AND SAUL CAME TO A CITY OF AMALEK, AND LAID WAIT IN THE VALLEY._ Came to a city of Amalek - probably their capital. LAID WAIT IN THE VALLEY - following the strategic policy of Joshua at Ai, (Joshu...
15:5 valley. (a-16) Or 'torrent.' See Note, Deuteronomy 2:14 ....
A CITY OF AMALEK] RV 'the city of Amalek,' i.e. the capital....
SAUL'S VICTORY OVER AMALEK. HIS DISOBEDIENCE AND REJECTION Amalek had attacked Israel at Rephidim (Exodus 17:8) and opposed their entrance into Canaan (Numbers 14:45 : cp. Deuteronomy 25:7; They are m...
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 15 GOD REFUSES SAUL AS KING V1 Samuel said to Saul, ‘The *Lord sent me to *anoint you as king over his people, the *Israelites. Now listen to...
A CITY OF AMALEK. — Better rendered, _The city of Amalek_: no doubt, their principal place of arms. AND LAID WAIT IN THE VALLEY. — Better, in a torrent bed, then dry (Arabic, “Wady”). There is a stran...
וַ יָּבֹ֥א שָׁא֖וּל עַד ־עִ֣יר עֲמָלֵ֑ק וַ
CHAPTER XXI. _ THE FINAL REJECTION OF SAUL_ 1 Samuel 15:1. HERE we find the second portion of God's indictment against Saul, and the reason for his final rejection from the office to which he had be...
LEADING THE PEOPLE IN DISOBEDIENCE 1 Samuel 15:1 Several years intervened between the preceding chapter and this. The kingdom had become strong and prosperous. It seemed as though Samuel's sentence o...
Saul was commissioned by Jehovah through Samuel to smite Amalek, and it was in connection with this that the sin occurred which filled his cup to the brim and caused him to be rejected. His campaign...
_Amelac. The people dwelt in tents, and removed from one place to another. So in Ethiopia there are properly no cities, the place where the prince encamps is deemed the capital. (Calmet) --- Torrent....
(4) And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. (5) And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley....
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...
Nevertheless Saul is put to a final proof. Jehovah, by the mouth of Samuel, sends him to smite Amalek, and utterly destroy them and all that belonged to them. They were the cruel and determined enemie...
AND SAUL CAME TO A CITY OF AMALEK,.... With his army, perhaps the nearest city of it to the land of Israel; though some think that Amalek was the name of the city, and was the metropolis of the nation...
And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. Ver. 5. _And laid wait in the valley._] Or, Skirmished by the burn or brook: declining the mountains, lest it should have proved prejud...
_Saul came to a city of Amalek_ Or, _to the city of Amalek._ For the metropolis of the kingdom seems to be here meant, the name of which some have thought was Amalek. _And laid wait in the valley_ Or...
1 Samuel sendeth Saul to destroy Amalek. 6 Saul fauoureth the Kenites. 8 Hee spareth Agag and the best of the spoile. 10 Samuel denounceth vnto Saul commending and excusing himselfe, Gods reiection...
And Saul came to a city of Amalek, evidently their largest camp, AND LAID WAIT IN THE VALLEY, set an ambush before venturing an attack....
THE UNAUTHORIZED ACTION OF SAUL...
God had a more solemn controversy with the Amalekites than with the Philistines. The mere formal worship typified by the Philistines is empty; but Amalekite "lusts of the flesh" are a deadly enemy tha...
LAID WAIT: Or, fought...
1-9 The sentence of condemnation against the Amalekites had gone forth long before, Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 25:19, but they had been spared till they filled up the measure of their sins. We are sur...
A CITY OF AMALEK; their chief city, where their king was, as is probable from 1 SAMUEL 15:8. LAID WAIT, intending to draw them forth of their city by some pretence, like that of Joshua, JOS 7, and the...
1 Samuel 15:5 Saul H7586 came H935 (H8799) city H5892 Amalek H6002 wait H7378 (H8799) H693 ...
SAUL'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE AMALEKITES AND HIS SACRILEGE WITH REGARD TO THE DEVOTED THINGS (1 SAMUEL 15:4). 1 Samuel 15:4 ‘ And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred mi...
1 Samuel 15 _(with 1 Timothy 1:19)_ The story of Saul is among the saddest which Scripture anywhere contains. I. Notice first the singular elements of nobleness which are to be traced in his natural...
CONTENTS: Saul's incomplete obedience and his rejection as king. CHARACTERS: God, Samuel, Saul, Agag. CONCLUSION: Some judge many things in their lives, but spare one Agag which the Lord has condemn...
1 Samuel 15:2. _I remember what Amalek did; Numbers 17:8_; and what he has often repeated, in the effusion of innocent blood. He joined Midian, and the children of the east, in a bloody and unprovoked...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 15:1 The Lord finally rejects Saul as king. ⇐ ⇔...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 15:4. “TELAIM.” Most likely the same as _Telem_ (Joshua 15:21; Joshua 15:24), a city lying on the eastern border of Judah, and therefore near the territory of t...
FINAL REJECTION OF SAUL (1 Samuel 15:1.) EXPOSITION DIVINE COMMAND TO PUNISH THE AMALEKITES, AND ITS EXECUTION BY SAUL ...
Now as we get into chapter fifteen, Samuel came to Saul, and said, The Lord sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel: now hearken unto the voice of the words of the Lord (1 Samue...
1 Samuel 15:5...
TO OBEY IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE 1 Samuel 15:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Disobedience is black with the frown of God. Sin is the transgression of the Law. Disobedience is taking one's own way, as against...