1Sa 11:6-13, 13:13-14, 15:26, 16:14, Psa 125:5, Zep 1:6, Heb 10:39 | TSK | STEP

1 Samuel 11:6-13

Spirit of God.

10:10; 16:13; Jud 3:10; 6:34; 11:29; 13:25; 14:6

his anger.

he took.The sending the pieces of the oxen was an act similar to that of the Levite, Jud 19:29, where see the Note. An eminent Scotch writer describes the rites, incantations, and imprecations used prior to the fiery cross being circulated, to summon the rough warriors of ancient times to the service of their chief; and he alludes to this ancient custom, which in comparatively modern times, has been practised in Scotland; and proves that a similar punishment of death, or destruction of their houses, for disobeying the summons, was inflicted by the ancient Scandinavians, as recorded by Olaus Magnus, in his History of the Goths. This bears a striking similarity to the ancient custom of the Israelites. With the Highlanders, a goat was slain; with the Israelites, an ox. The exhibition of a cross, stained with the blood of the sacrificed animal, was the summons of the former, while part of the animal, was the mandate of the latter. Disobedience in one nation was punished with the death of themselves or oxen, and burning of their dwellings in the other.

hewed.

Jud 19:29

Whosoever.

Jud 21:5-11

the fear.

Ge 35:5; 2Ch 14:14; 17:10

with one consent. Heb. as one man.

Jud 20:1

Bezek.

Jud 1:4,5

the children.

13:15; 15:4; 2Sa 24:9; 2Ch 17:12-19

help. or, deliverance.

Ps 18:17

To-morrow.

2,3

on the morrow.

Ge 22:14; Ps 46:1

in three.

Jud 7:16; 9:43

morning.

Ex 14:24

slew.

2; Jud 1:7; Mt 7:2; Jas 2:13

so that two.

30:17,18; Jud 4:16

Who is he.

10:27; Ps 21:8; Lu 19:27

There shall.

14:45; 2Sa 19:22

the Lord.

19:5; Ex 14:13,30; Ps 44:4-8; Isa 59:16; 1Co 15:10

1 Samuel 13:13-14

Thou hast done.

2Sa 12:7-9; 1Ki 18:18; 21:20; 2Ch 16:9; 19:2; 25:15,16; Job 34:18

Pr 19:3; Mt 14:3,4

hast not kept.

15:11,22,28; Ps 50:8-15

But now.

2:30; 15:28

the Lord.

16:1,12; 2Sa 7:15,16; Ps 78:70; 89:19,20-37; Ac 13:22

captain over.

9:16; 2Sa 5:2; 2Ki 20:5; Heb 2:10

1 Samuel 15:26

I will not.

31; Ge 42:38; 43:11-14; Lu 24:28,29; 2Jo 1:11

for thou.

23; 2:30; 13:14; 16:1; Jer 6:19; Ho 4:6

1 Samuel 16:14

the Spirit.

11:6; 18:12; 28:15; Jud 16:29; Ps 51:11; Ho 9:12

evil spirit.The evil spirit was either sent immediately from the Lord, or permitted to come; but whether this was a diabolic possession, or a mere mental malady, is not agreed: it seems to have partaken of both. That Saul had fallen into a deep melancholy, there is little doubt; and that an evil spirit might work more effectually on such a state of mind, there can be little question. His malady appears to have been of a mixed kind, natural and diabolical: there is too much of apparent nature in it to permit us to believe it was all spiritual; and there is too much of apparently supernatural influence, to suffer us to believe it was all natural.

18:10; 19:9,10; Jud 9:23; 1Ki 22:22; Ac 19:15,16

troubled. or, terrified.