Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Samuel 15:1
The absence of all chronology or note of time is remarkable. read more
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Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Samuel 15:2
Compare the marginal references. It appears 1 Samuel 14:48 that this expedition against Amalek was not made without fresh provocation. Probably some incursion similar to that described in 1 Samuel 30:0 was made by them upon the south country at a time when they thought the Israelites were weakened by their contests with the Philistines. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Samuel 15:3
Utterly destroy - Rather, “devote to destruction” (Leviticus 27:28 note). When a city or people were thus made cherem, everything living was to be destroyed, and no part of the spoil fall to the conquerors (compare 1 Samuel 15:21). The valuables were put into the sacred treasury. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Samuel 15:1-2
1 Samuel 15:1-2. Hearken thou unto the voice of the Lord Thou hast erred already; now regain God’s favour by thy exact obedience to what he commands. Thus saith the Lord, I remember, &c. Now I will avenge those old injuries of the Amalekites on their children, who continue in their parents’ practices. God here refers to that most notorious instance of cruelty, inhumanity, and impiety, their invading and destroying, as far as in them lay, by treachery and surprise, and that uninjured... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Samuel 15:3
1 Samuel 15:3. Go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, &c. This heavy sentence was pronounced against them long before, (Exodus 17:14,) and renewed at the Israelites’ entrance into Canaan, with a charge not to forget it, (Deuteronomy 25:19,) and now ordered to be put in execution. Slay both man and woman, infant and suckling We are to consider these orders of God, given in Scripture, for the slaying the innocent with the guilty, even children and sucklings, who... read more
Donald C. Fleming
Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 15:1-35
War against the Amalekites (15:1-35)The Amalekites came under the same curse as those Canaanite nations that were to be destroyed (15:1-3; cf. Exodus 17:8-16; Deuteronomy 20:16-18; Deuteronomy 25:17-19). Again Saul’s obedience was tested, and again he failed. His kingly power gave him no right to alter God-given instructions to suit himself (4-9).God sent Samuel to tell Saul of the consequences of his disobedience (10-16; cf. 13:13-14). Religious sacrifices and military victories were no... read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Samuel 15:1
The LORD . Hebrew. Jehovah . App-4 . read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 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 . read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 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 . read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Samuel 15:3
Utterly destroy. Hebrew, "put under the ban." The word herem, ban, properly signifies a thing set apart, especially one devoted to God; and whatever was so devoted could not be redeemed, but must be slain. When a country was put under the ban, all living things, men and cattle, were to be killed; no spoil might be taken, but it was to be burnt, and things indestructible by fire, as silver and gold, were to be brought into the treasury. Everything, in short, belonging to such a nation was... read more