Deu 31:17, 1Sa 16:14, 28:15-16, 2Ki 17:18, 23, Hos 7:13, 9:5-6 | TSK | STEP | my anger. I will forsake. hide my face.Though this may allude to the withdrawing of the {Shechinah,} or visible appearance of Jehovah, yet the general meaning of the expression in Scripture is, the withdrawing of his approbation and protection, of which his visible appearance was formerly the sign and pledge. befal them. Heb. find them. Are not these.

Deuteronomy 31:17

my anger.

29:20; 32:21,22; Jud 2:14,15; Ps 2:12; 90:11

I will forsake.

1Ch 28:9; 2Ch 15:2; Jer 23:33,39; Ho 9:12

hide my face.Though this may allude to the withdrawing of the {Shechinah,} or visible appearance of Jehovah, yet the general meaning of the expression in Scripture is, the withdrawing of his approbation and protection, of which his visible appearance was formerly the sign and pledge.

32:20; Job 13:24; Ps 27:9; 30:7; 89:46; 104:29; Isa 8:17; 64:7

Eze 39:23,24,29

befal them. Heb. find them.

Ne 9:32; *marg:

Job 34:11

Are not these.

29:24-27; Nu 14:42; Jud 6:13; Isa 63:17

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.