1Sa 10:1, 15:1, 16:3, 1Ki 19:15-16, 2Ki 9:3-6 | TSK | STEP | Samuel anoints Saul. He confirms him by prediction of three signs. Saul's heart is changed, and he prophesies. He conceals the matter of the kingdom from his uncle. Saul is chosen at Mizpeh by lot. The different affections of his subjects. a vial. kissed him. captain. his inheritance.

wilderness of Damascus.The wilderness of Damascus seems to have been that part of Arabia Deserta which lay on the south-east of that city, and east of the Trachonites, or the Djebel Haouran and El Ledja; at which the prophet could arrive without meeting Jezebel or any of his enemies.

Ge 14:15; 2Ki 8:7; Ac 9:2,3

anoint.

Isa 45:1; Jer 1:10; 27:2-22

Hazael.

2Ki 8:8-15,28; 9:14; Am 1:4

Jehu.

2Ki 9:1-3,6-14

Elisha.

19-21; Lu 4:27

Eliseus. Abel-meholah.

4:12; Jud 7:22

2 Kings 9:3-6

pour it.

Ex 29:7; Le 8:12; 1Sa 16:13; 1Ki 19:16

I have anointed.

8:13; 1Sa 9:16; 15:1,17; 16:12; Ps 75:6,7; Pr 8:15,16; Jer 27:5-7

Da 2:1; 4:35; 5:18; Joh 19:10,11

and flee.

1Sa 16:2; Mt 2:13; 10:16

the young man.{Hannäâr hannavee,} not as some would render, "the servant of the prophet," but, as correctly rendered by our venerable translators, "the young man, the prophet;" for [hn`r,] hannäâr, "the young man," is not in {regimine,} but in {appositione,} with [hnby',] {hannavee,} "the prophet."

I have an errand.

Jud 3:19

he arose.

Ac 23:18,19

I have anointed.

3; 1Ki 1:34; 19:16; 2Ch 22:7; Ps 2:6; *marg:

Ps 75:6; Isa 45:1; Da 2:21; 4:17,32; 5:20,21

over the people.

1Ki 3:8; 10:9; 14:7; 16:2