1 Samuel 16:14-23
the Spirit.11:6; 18:12; 28:15; Jud 16:29; Ps 51:11; Ho 9:12evil 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 19:15,16troubled. or, terrified. 15 before thee.21,22; Ge 41:46; 1Ki 10:8play.23; 10:5; 2Ki 3:15 17 a mighty.17:32-36; 2Sa 17:8,10and prudent.2Sa 14:20matters. or, speech. a comely.12the Lord.3:19; 10:7; 18:12-14; Ge 39:2,23; Mt 1:23; 28:20 with the sheep.11; 17:15,33,34; Ex 3:1-10; 1Ki 19:19; Ps 78:70-72; 113:8Am 1:1; 7:14,15; Mt 4:18-22 an ass laden.{Chamor lechem,} literally, "an ass of bread," rendered by the LXX. [gomor arton,] a {gomor} of bread; meaning, probably, not an animal, but a vessel containing a certain measure of bread. 10:27; 17:18; 25:18; Ge 43:11; 2Sa 16:1,2; Pr 18:16 stood before him.Ge 41:46; De 1:38; 10:8; 1Ki 10:8; Pr 22:29loved him.Ps 62:9; 118:9; 146:3 22 the evil spirit.14,16Saul.18:10,11; Mt 12:43-45; Lu 11:24-261 Samuel 18:10
the evil spirit.16:14,15; 19:9; 26:19and he prophesied.{Wyyithnabbai,} rather, "and he pretended to prophesy; for the verb is in {Hithpaël,} the signification of which conjugation is not only reflex action, but also affectation of the action: Jer 29:26, 27. The meaning seems to be, that Saul, influenced by the evil spirit, feigned to be prophesying, the better to conceal his murderous intentions, and to render David unsuspicious. 19:24; 1Ki 18:29; 22:12,20-23; Jer 28:2-4,11; Zec 13:2-5; Ac 16:162Th 2:11played.16:16,23and there was.{Wehachanith beyad Shäool,} rather, "and the javelin was in the hand of Saul;" for the javelin or spear was the emblem of regal authority; and kings had it always in their hand, as may be seen represented on ancient monuments. In ancient times, says Justin, kings used a spear instead of a sceptre.2 Samuel 16:11
Behold.12:11,12came forth.7:2; Ge 15:4seeketh.17:1-4; 2Ki 19:37; 2Ch 32:21; Mt 10:21the Lord.Isa 10:5-7; Eze 14:9; 20:252 Samuel 24:1
1 David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people.5 The captains, in nine months and twenty days, bring the muster of thirteen hundred thousand fighting men.10 David repents, and having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the three days' pestilence.15 After the death of three score and ten thousand, David by prayer prevents the destruction of Jerusalem.18 David, by God's direction, purchases Araunah's threshing floor; where having sacrificed, the plague stays. A.M. 2987. B.C. 1017. An. Ex. Is. 474. again.21:1-14he.This verse, when read without reference to any other part of the word of God, is very difficult to understand, and has been used by those who desire to undermine the justice of God, to shew that he sought occasion to punish--that he incited David to sin; and when he had so incited him, gave to him the dreadful alternative of choosing one of three scourges by which his people were to be cut off. On the face of the passage these thoughts naturally arise, because "the Lord" is the antecedent to the pronoun "he,"--He moved David. But to those who "search the Scriptures," this exceedingly difficult passage receives a wonderful elucidation, By referring to 1 Ch 21:1, the reader will there find that Satan was the mover, and that the Lord most righteously punished David for the display of pride he had manifested. Oh! that Christians, who sometimes have their minds harassed with doubts, would remember the promise, that what they know not now they shall know hereafter; and if no other instance of elucidation than this passage occurred to them to remove their doubts, let this be a means of stirring them up to dig deeper than ever into the inexhaustible mines of the Inspired Word. Jas 1:13,14moved.12:11; 16:10; Ge 45:5; 50:20; Ex 7:3; 1Sa 26:19; 1Ki 22:20-23Eze 14:9; 20:25; Ac 4:28; 2Th 2:11Go, number.1Ch 27:23,241 Kings 22:22
a lying spirit.Job 1:8-11; 2:4-6; Joh 8:44; Ac 5:3,4; 2Th 2:9,10; 1Ti 4:1; 1Jo 4:6Re 12:9,10; 13:14; 16:13,14; 20:3,7,10Thou shalt.20; Jud 9:23; Job 12:16; Ps 109:17; 2Th 2:10-12; Re 17:171 Chronicles 21:1
1 David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people.5 The number of the people being brought, David repents of it.9 David having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the pestilence.14 After the death of seventy thousand, David by repentance prevents the destruction of Jerusalem.18 David, by Gad's direction, purchases Ornan's threshing- floor; where having built an altar, God gives a sign of his favour by fire, and stays the plague.28 David sacrifices there, being restrained from Gibeon by fear of the angel. A.M. 2987. B.C. 1017. An. Ex. Is. 474. Satan.2Sa 24:1; 1Ki 22:20-22; Job 1:6-12; 2:1,4-6; Zec 3:1; Mt 4:3Lu 22:31; Joh 13:2; Ac 5:3; Jas 1:13; Re 12:10provoked David.Lu 11:53; Heb 10:24
Copyright information for
TSK