1 Samuel 15

1 Samuel 15:1

The LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

1 Samuel 15:2

the LORD of hosts. See note on 1 Samuel 1:3.

I remember. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.

how he laid wait. Compare Exodus 17:8.

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read “now therefore go”.

Amalek. Compare Exodus 17:16. Numbers 24:20.

utterly destroy = devote to destruction.

man. Hebrew. ’ish. App-14.

1 Samuel 15:4

Telaim. Probably Telem (Joshua 15:24).

men. Hebrew. ’ish. App-14.

1 Samuel 15:7

from. Supply Figure of speech Ellipsis (App-6) thus: “[that dwell] from Havilah, “&c.

1 Samuel 15:8

Kenites. Said to be the same as the Rechabites. Go, depart. Note the Figure of speech Asyndeton in 1 Samuel 15:6.

1 Samuel 15:9

and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton (App-6) in this verse.

every thing that was vile = all the stock that was worthless.

1 Samuel 15:11

It repenteth Me. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.

1 Samuel 15:12

behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.

place. Hebrew a hand. Either to mark his claim to the place, or a monument, as in 2 Samuel 18:18.

on = over.

1 Samuel 15:13

I have performed. See 1 Samuel 15:11.

1 Samuel 15:15

God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.

1 Samuel 15:18

sinners. Hebrew. chata’. App-44.

they be consumed = they have consumed them. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read “thou have consumed them”.

1 Samuel 15:19

obey = hearken to.

evil = the evil. Hebrew. raa. App-44.

1 Samuel 15:20

obeyed = hearkened.

1 Samuel 15:22

to obey = to hearken to.

to hearken = to give heed.

1 Samuel 15:23

sin. Hebrew. chata’. App-44.

witchcraft = divination or necromancy; i.e. dealings with spirits.

iniquity. Hebrew. ’aven. App-44.

1 Samuel 15:24

transgressed. Hebrew. `abar. App-44.

commandment. Hebrew “mouth”, put by Fig, Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for what is spoken by it.

words. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read “word”.

1 Samuel 15:27

he = Saul.

his = Samuel’s. Compare 1 Kings 11:30, 1 Kings 11:31.

1 Samuel 15:29

the Strength = the Eternal One. First occurrence. Hebrew. nezah. A Divine title.

repent : i.e. as God, though He is said to do so by the Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.

a man. Hebrew. ’adam. App-14.

1 Samuel 15:32

delicately = in fetters (Job 38:31). Septuagint has “trembling”; Vulgate has “sleek and trembling”.

1 Samuel 15:33

As = according as.

hewed: i.e. commanded him to be hewed or cut asunder after death. Verb occurs only here.

Agag. See note on Amalek (Exodus 17:16, and Compare 1 Samuel 15:3).

1 Samuel 15:35

no more. Compare 1 Samuel 16:1, 1 Samuel 16:14; 1 Samuel 19:23.

Samuel mourned: i.e. as for one dead. We do not read that Saul mourned for himself.