1 Samuel 15
1 Samuel sends Saul to destroy Amalek.6 Saul favours the Kenites.7 He spares Agag and the best of the spoil.10 Samuel denounces unto Saul God's rejection of him for his disobedience.24 Saul's humiliation.32 Samuel kills Agag.34 Samuel and Saul part. A.M. 2925. B.C. 1079. An. Ex. Is. 412. The Lord.17,18; 9:16; 10:1hearken.16; 12:14; 13:13; 2Sa 23:2,3; 1Ch 22:12,13; Ps 2:10,11 I remember.Jer 31:34; Ho 7:2; Am 8:7Amalek.Ex 17:8-16; Nu 24:20; De 25:17-19 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 6:17-21slay.Ex 20:5; Nu 31:17; Isa 14:21,22ox and sheep.Ge 3:17,18; Ro 8:20-22 Telaim.Jos 15:24Telem. two.11:8; 13:15 laid wait. or, fought.5 the Kenites.27:10; Nu 24:21,22; Jud 1:16; 4:11; 5:24; 1Ch 2:55Go, depart.Ge 18:25; 19:12-16; Nu 16:26,27,34; Pr 9:6; Ac 2:40; 2Co 6:17Re 18:14ye shewed.Ex 18:9,10,19; Nu 10:29-32; 2Ti 1:16 smote.14:48; Job 21:30; Ec 8:13Havilah.This Havilah was probably situated in Arabia, and the district of Chaulon may mark the spot. It seems different from that encompassed by the river Pison, one of the rivers of Eden. Ge 2:11; 25:18Shur.27:8; Ge 16:7 Agag.3; Nu 24:7; 1Ki 20:30,34-42; Es 3:1utterly.27:8; 30:1; Jos 10:39; 11:12 the best.3,15,19; Jos 7:21the fatlings. or, the second sort.2Sa 6:13 10 repenteth me.35; Ge 6:6; 2Sa 24:16; Ps 110:4; Jer 18:7-10; Am 7:3; Jon 3:10; 4:2turned.Jos 22:16; 1Ki 9:6; Ps 36:3; 78:41,57; 125:5; Zep 1:6; Mt 24:13Heb 10:38hath not performed.3,9; 13:13it grieved.35; 16:1; Ps 119:136; Jer 9:1,18; 13:17; Lu 19:41-44; Ro 9:1-3he cried.12:23; Ps 109:4; Mt 5:44; Lu 6:12 Carmel.25:2; Jos 15:55; 1Ki 18:42he set him.7:12; Jos 4:8,9; 2Sa 18:18a place. Yad.Literally as the LXX. render [cheira,] a hand; probably because the trophy or monument of victory was in the shape of a large hand, the emblem of power, erected on a pillar. These memorial pillars were anciently much in use; and the figure of a hand, by its emblematical meaning, was well adapted to preserve the remembrance of a victory. Niebuhr, speaking of the Mesjed Ali, or Mosque of Ali, says that, "at the top of the dome, where one generally sees on the Turkish mosques a crescent, or only a pole, there is here a hand stretched out, to represent that of Ali." Another writer informs us, that at the Alhamra, or red palace of the Moorish kings in Grenada, "on the key-stone of the outward arch [of the present principal entrance] is sculptured the figure of an arm, the symbol of strength and dominion." Blessed.13:10; Ge 14:19; Jud 17:2; Ru 3:10I have performed.9,11; Ge 3:12; Pr 27:2; 28:13; 30:13; 31:31; Lu 17:10; 18:11 What meaneth.Ps 36:2; 50:16-21; Jer 2:18,19,22,23,34-37; Mal 3:13-15; Lu 19:22Ro 3:19; 1Co 4:5 for.9,21; Ge 3:12,13; Ex 32:22,23; Job 31:33; Pr 28:13to.Mt 2:8; Lu 10:29 Stay.9:27; 12:7; 1Ki 22:16 When thou.9:21; 10:22; Jud 6:15; Ho 13:1; Mt 18:4the Lord.1-3; 10:1 the sinners.Ge 13:13; 15:16; Nu 16:38; Job 31:3; Pr 10:29; 13:21they be consumed. Heb. they consume them. fly upon.Pr 15:27; Jer 7:11; Hab 2:9-12; 2Ti 4:10didst evil.2Ch 33:2,6; 36:12 Yea.13; Job 33:9; 34:5; 35:2; 40:8; Mt 19:20; Lu 10:29; 18:11; Ro 10:3have brought.3,8 the people.15; Ge 3:13; Ex 32:22,23 Hath the Lord.Ps 50:8,9; 51:16,17; Pr 21:3; Isa 1:11-17; Jer 7:22,23; Ho 6:6Am 5:21-24; Mic 6:6-8; Mt 9:13; 12:7; 23:23; Heb 10:4-10obey.Ex 19:5; Ec 5:1; Jer 7:23; 11:4,7; 26:13; Ho 6:6; Mt 5:24; Mr 12:33 rebellion.12:14,15; Nu 14:9; De 9:7,24; Jos 22:16-19; Job 34:37; Ps 107:11Jer 28:16; 29:32; Eze 2:5-8witchcraft. Heb. divination.Ex 22:18; Le 20:6,27; De 18:10,11; Isa 8:19; 19:3; Re 22:15stubbornness.2Co 6:16; Ga 5:20; Re 21:8thou hast rejected.2:30; 13:14; 16:1; 2Ki 17:15-20; 1Ch 28:9 I have sinned.30; Ex 9:27; 10:16; Nu 22:34; 2Sa 12:13; Mt 27:4I feared.9,15; Ex 23:2; Job 31:34; Pr 29:25; Isa 51:12,13; Lu 23:20-25Ga 1:10; Re 21:8obeyed.2:29; Ge 3:12,17; Jer 38:5 pardon.Ex 10:17 I will not.31; Ge 42:38; 43:11-14; Lu 24:28,29; 2Jo 1:11for thou.23; 2:30; 13:14; 16:1; Jer 6:19; Ho 4:6 27 The Lord.28:17,18; 1Ki 11:30,31hath given.2:7,8; Jer 27:5,6; Da 4:17,32; Joh 19:11; Ro 13:1a neighbour.13:14; 16:12; Ac 13:22 Strength. or, Eternity, or, Victory.De 33:27; Ps 29:11; 68:35; Isa 45:24; Joe 3:16; 2Co 12:9; Php 4:13will not lie.Nu 14:28,29; 23:19; Ps 95:11; Eze 24:14; 2Ti 2:13; Tit 1:2Heb 6:18 honour me now.Hab 2:4; Joh 5:44; 12:43that I may worship.Isa 29:13; Lu 18:9-14; 2Ti 3:5 31 Agag said.Jer 48:44; 1Th 5:3; Re 18:7 As thy sword.Ge 9:6; Ex 17:11; Nu 14:45; Jud 1:7; Mt 7:2; Jas 2:13; Re 16:6; 18:6Samuel.It has been a matter of wonder to many, how Samuel could thus slay a captive prince, even in the presence of Saul, who from motives of clemency had spared him; but it should be remarked, that what Samuel did here, he did in his magisterial capacity; and that Agag had been a cruel tyrant, and therefore was cut off for his merciless cruelties. Farther, it is not likely that he did it by his own sword, but by that of the executioner. What kings, magistrates, and generals do, in an official way, by their subjects, servants, or soldiers, they are said to do themselves:--{qui facit per alterum, facit per se.} hewed.Nu 25:7,8; 1Ki 18:40; Isa 34:6; Jer 48:10 Gibeah.11:4 Samuel.19:24Samuel mourned.11; 16:1; Ps 119:136,158; Jer 9:1,2; Ro 9:2,3; Php 3:18repented.11; Ge 6:6
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