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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 15:1-3

YHWH Commands His Anointed To Slay The Amalekites As A Divine Judgment On Them (1 Samuel 15:1-3 ). It is important to recognise in this passage that Saul is specifically instructed as ‘the anointed of YHWH’ and is called on to act as His instrument of justice on the Amalekites. He is to ‘devote’ the Amalekites and all their possessions to YHWH. This involved total annihilation and destruction of something which all recognised that YHWH had specifically made His own. It was all thus sacred to... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 15:1-35

XV. The War against Amalek; Saul’ s Disobedience and Deposition (E). – A section of a secondary narrative; according to the scheme adopted here, the last section of this document was 1 Samuel 3:3 to 1 Samuel 4:1. 1 Samuel 15:1-: . Samuel bids Saul attack Amalek and subject it to the herem (pp. 99, 114), or sacred ban, by which all living creatures were put to death in honour of Yahweh. ( Cf. the cases of Jericho and Achan, Joshua 6 f.) Saul called a general levy to a rendezvous in the south... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 15:1

The Lord made thee king, and therefore thou art highly obliged to serve and obey him. Thou hast committed one error already, for which God hath severely rebuked and threatened; now therefore make amends for thy former error, and regain God’s favour by thy exact obedience to what he now commands. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Samuel 15:1-3

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—“Samuel also said to Saul.” “This verse is not to be connected chronologically with chap. 12, but continues the narrative of chaps. 13 and 14. The solemn reminder of Saul’s royal anointing, and of Samuel’s Divine mission to that end, refers not to 1 Samuel 11:15, but to 1 Samuel 9:15; 1 Samuel 10:1, It points to the fact that the following commission is a Divine command communicated by the appointed organ, the prophet of God, and that the bearer of the royal office... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 15:1-35

1 Samuel 15:0 (with 1 Timothy 1:19 ) The story of Saul is among the saddest which Scripture anywhere contains. I. Notice first the singular elements of nobleness which are to be traced in his natural character, so that his moral stature did not altogether belie the stateliness of his outward frame. There is nothing which so often oversets the whole balance of a mind, which brings out faults unsuspected before, as a sudden and abrupt elevation from a very low to a very high position. But Saul... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 15:1-35

Chapter 15Now as we get into chapter fifteen,Samuel came to Saul, and said, The Lord sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel: now hearken unto the voice of the words of the Lord ( 1 Samuel 15:1 ).Now he has shown a pattern of disobedience up to this point. He has become self-willed, doing his own thing. So the prophet is coming and warning him. This to me is very significant, because God does seek to warn us from our self-willed path of destruction. God doesn't just let... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Samuel 15:1-35

1 Samuel 15:2 . I remember what Amalek did; Numbers 17:8; and what he has often repeated, in the effusion of innocent blood. He joined Midian, and the children of the east, in a bloody and unprovoked invasion of Israel. Judges 6:3. 1 Samuel 15:3 . Utterly destroy all. God himself passed the sentence. The Kenites, (1 Samuel 15:6, and Judges 1:4.) live for their kindness, while the Amalekites die for their cruelties. But many saved themselves by flight, for David found them still occupying... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 15:1

1Sa 15:1-35 :1 Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee [to be] king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD. Ver. 1. The Lord sent me to anoint thee to be king. ] And kings are doubly bound to obey the Lord, - as Queen Elizabeth wrote to Henry IV of France, - first as men; next as men so entrusted and advanced. Now therefore hearken thou. ] Now at least, and at length, after thy so foul miscarriages, and God’s heavy... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Samuel 15:1

am 2925, bc 1079, An, Ex, Is, 412 The Lord: 1 Samuel 15:17, 1 Samuel 15:18, 1 Samuel 9:16, 1 Samuel 10:1 hearken: 1 Samuel 15:16, 1 Samuel 12:14, 1 Samuel 13:13, 2 Samuel 23:2, 2 Samuel 23:3, 1 Chronicles 22:12, 1 Chronicles 22:13, Psalms 2:10, Psalms 2:11 Reciprocal: Genesis 14:7 - Amalekites Deuteronomy 25:19 - thou shalt Joshua 11:15 - he left nothing 1 Samuel 9:15 - the Lord 2 Kings 9:3 - I have anointed John 10:35 - unto Acts 13:21 - Saul read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 1 Samuel 15:1

Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.Hearken — Thou hast committed error already, now regain God's favour by thy exact obedience to what he commands. read more