1 Samuel 10:10-25 NVIPT

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:18

And said unto the children of Israel ,.... In the name of the Lord, using the phrase which the prophets used when they spoke in the name of the Lord: thus saith the Lord God of Israel ; the great Jehovah, the Being of beings, the covenant God of his people Israel: I brought up Israel out of Egypt ; when in bondage there, with a mighty hand and outstretched arm, by means of signs and wonders done by the hands of Moses and Aaron; the Lord working mightily with them, and thereby... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:19

And ye have this day rejected your God ,.... As their king, by desiring another to be set over them: who himself saved you out of all your adversity and your tribulations ; that they had been in at any time in Egypt, in their passage through the wilderness to Canaan, and after they were settled there: ye have said unto him, nay , but set a king over us : they did as good as say God should not be their King, but they would have one set over them like the kings of the nations about... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:20

And when Samuel had caused all the tribes to come near ,.... The heads and representatives of them, to the place where the lots were cast: the tribe of Benjamin was taken ; the lot fell upon that tribe for the choice of a king out of it; not the tribe of, Reuben, who was the firstborn, nor the tribe of Judah, to whom the kingdom was promised, but the tribe of Benjamin, the least of all the tribes, and which sprung from the youngest son of Jacob, contrary, as it were probable, to the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:21

And when he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families ,.... By the heads of them, to have lots cast for them, out of which of the families the king should be chosen: the family of Matri was taken ; that is, by lot; the lot fell upon that family for the choice of a king out of them: in the account of the families of the tribe of Benjamin, 1 Chronicles 8:1 no mention is made of this family, nor any where else, and yet no doubt there was such a family, and Saul was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:22

Therefore they inquired of the Lord further ,.... Or again, by lot, by which they knew who the person was the was chosen king, but they did not know where he was, and therefore inquire further how they must come at him; and this inquiry was made either before the high priest by Urim and Thummim, or by Samuel the prophet of the Lord: and the inquiry was: if the man should yet come thither ; whether he was already come, or would come there, and if not, what methods they must take to find... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:23

And they ran and fetched him thence ,.... Being in haste to see their king elect, and proclaim him: and when he stood among the people ; being brought among them, and presented to them: he was higher than any of the people, from the shoulders, and upwards ; which made him look very graceful and majestic; height of stature, and a comely form, as Kimchi observes, recommend to royal dignity; and make the people stand more in awe of a prince, and have always been reckoned among all other... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:24

And Samuel said to all the people, see ye him whom the Lord hath chosen ,.... For the choice being made by lot, the disposal of which is of the Lord, it is properly attributed to him, and the people could not object to it, but must allow it was the Lord's doing. Eupolemus F11 Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 30. p. 447. , an Heathen writer, says, that Saul was made king by Samuel by the counsel or will of God; and Samuel appeals to their eyes for the goodness of the choice, a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:25

Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom , According to Ben Gersom, he laid before them the power a king had over his people, and the punishment he might inflict upon them, if they rebelled against him; and some think this is the same he delivered in 1 Samuel 8:10 concerning the arbitrary power of their kings, and how they would be used by them; and which he here repeated, and then wrote it, that it might be a testimony against them hereafter; with which what Josephus F13 ... read more

Adam Clarke