Jos 7:21, 1Sa 15:3, 15, 19 | TSK | STEP | I saw. Babylonish garment.{Addereth shinâr,} "a splendid or costly robe of Shinar," the plain in which Babylon stood. Bochart and Calmet have shewn at large, that Babylonish robes were very splendid, and in high reputation. Calmet says, they are generally allowed to have been of various colours, though some suppose they were woven thus; others, that they were embroidered with the needle; and others, that they were painted. Silius Italicus seems to think they were woven. Martial supposes them to have been embroidered with the needle; and Pliny and Apuleius speak of them as painted. wedge. Heb. tongue. I coveted. took them. they are hid.

Joshua 7:21

I saw.

Ge 3:6; 6:2; 2Sa 11:2; Job 31:1; Ps 119:37; Pr 23:31; 28:22

Babylonish garment.{Addereth shinâr,} "a splendid or costly robe of Shinar," the plain in which Babylon stood. Bochart and Calmet have shewn at large, that Babylonish robes were very splendid, and in high reputation. Calmet says, they are generally allowed to have been of various colours, though some suppose they were woven thus; others, that they were embroidered with the needle; and others, that they were painted. Silius Italicus seems to think they were woven. Martial supposes them to have been embroidered with the needle; and Pliny and Apuleius speak of them as painted.

Ge 10:10; *marg:

wedge. Heb. tongue. I coveted.

Ex 20:17; De 7:25; 1Ki 21:1,2; 2Ki 5:20-27; Hab 2:9; Lu 12:15

Ro 7:7,8; Eph 5:3; Col 3:5; 1Ti 6:9,10; Heb 13:5; 2Pe 2:15

took them.

Pr 4:23; Mic 2:1,2; Jas 1:15

they are hid.

2Sa 11:6-17; 2Ki 5:24,25; Isa 28:15; 29:15; Lu 12:2

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go.The Amalekites, a people of Arabia Petræa, who inhabited a tract of country on the frontiers of Egypt and Canaan, had acted with great cruelty towards the Israelites on their coming out of Egypt, and God then purposed that Amalek, as a nation, should be blotted out from under heaven; but it had been spared till it had filled up the measure of its iniquities, and now this purpose is carried into effect by Saul, upwards of 400 years afterwards! Nothing could justify such an exterminating decree but the absolute authority of God; and this was given: all the reasons of it we do not know; but this we know well, the Judge of all the earth doeth right.

utterly destroy.

Le 27:28,29; Nu 24:20; De 13:15,16; 20:16-18; Jos 6:17-21

slay.

Ex 20:5; Nu 31:17; Isa 14:21,22

ox and sheep.

Ge 3:17,18; Ro 8:20-22

1 Samuel 15:15

for.

9,21; Ge 3:12,13; Ex 32:22,23; Job 31:33; Pr 28:13

to.

Mt 2:8; Lu 10:29

1 Samuel 15:19

fly upon.

Pr 15:27; Jer 7:11; Hab 2:9-12; 2Ti 4:10

didst evil.

2Ch 33:2,6; 36:12