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John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 1 Samuel 10:7

And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.Thou do — Heb. do what they hand findeth to do; that is, as thou shalt have a call and opportunity. He doth not intend that he should take the kingly government upon him, before his call to it was owned by the people, but that he should dispose his mind to a readiness of undertaking any public service when he should be called to his office. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 1 Samuel 10:8

And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.Till I come — This, though now mentioned and commanded, was not immediately to be performed; as is evident, partly from the whole course of the story, (which shews, that Saul and Samuel, and the people, first met at Mizpeh, verse17, etc. where Saul was... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 10:1-16

THE ANOINTING OF SAUL, 1 Samuel 9:1 to 1 Samuel 10:16. In this chapter we are introduced to him who figures in the following history as the first king of Israel. But Samuel is yet the chief ruler, and Saul does not appear as reigning and exercising all his regal prerogatives until in chap. 13, after the prophet Samuel has given his last public counsel and exhortation to the assembled nation. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 10:2

2. When thou art departed from me Samuel proceeds, 1 Samuel 10:2-7, to give Saul three signs by which he shall know that God had chosen him king. Rachel’s sepulchre See Genesis 35:19-20. There is no sufficient reason to question the traditional site of this place, which is at the modern Kubbet Rahil, a little to the northwest of Beth-lehem. In the border of Benjamin This ran through the valley of Hinnom, just south of Jerusalem. Joshua 18:16. Zelzah Some identify this place with the... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 10:3

3. The plain of Tabor Rather, the oak of Tabor, a spot apparently well known to Saul and Samuel, but now lost from our knowledge. Thenius’s conjecture that the oak of Deborah (Genesis 35:8) is meant cannot be correct, for that was at Beth-el, far to the north of Saul’s home. Three men going up to God to Beth-el That is, going up to worship and sacrifice unto God at Beth-el. This “shows that there was still a place of sacrifice consecrated to the Lord at Beth-el, where Abraham and... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 10:5

5. The hill of God Hebrew, Gibeath ha-Elohim. This seems to have been the name of a sacrificial height near the home of Saul. It perhaps took its name from being the chief seat of the company of prophets here referred to. Without doubt the height Tuleil-el-Ful is meant, which marks the site of the ancient Gibeah of Saul. The city itself, as we learn from this same verse, lay close by, probably at the base of the hill on the east or northeast. See Robinson’s “Biblical Researches,” vol.... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 10:6

6. Turned into another man Not regenerated in the Christian sense, nor suddenly endowed with a divine illumination of soul that completely lifted him out of his previous modes of thought and feeling; but quickened with a divine impulse, and inspired with a loftier ambition and with conceptions of responsibility such as he had not known before. See further on 1 Samuel 10:9. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 10:7

7. Do as occasion serve thee Literally, as in the margin, do for thee as thine hand shall find. That is, when thou seest all these signs come to pass, know that the Lord confirms thee as captain over his inheritance, and afterward act as circumstances seem to require. Boldly enter the openings of Providence. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 10:8

8. Thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal This is not a command, but a prediction. Samuel’s prophetic eye fastens upon the future turning point in Saul’s career, when, threatened by an attack from the Philistines, and forsaken by many of his soldiers, he shall be called upon to show his faith in God. Perhaps Samuel added other instructions not recorded here; but it was sufficient now for Saul to know that there would come a time when he would be waiting at Gilgal for Samuel’s arrival, and... read more

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