1 Samuel 10:13-27 NVI

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:9-16

Saul has now taken his leave of Samuel, much amazed, we may well suppose, at what has been done to him, almost ready to question whether he be awake or no, and whether it be not all a dream. Now here we are told, I. What occurred by the way, 1 Sam. 10:9. Those signs which Samuel had given him came to pass very punctually; but that which gave him the greatest satisfaction of all was this, he found immediately that God had given him another heart. A new fire was kindled in his breast, such as he... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:17-27

Saul's nomination to the throne is here made public, in a general assembly of the elders of Israel, the representatives of their respective tribes at Mizpeh. It is probable that this convention of the states was called as soon as conveniently it might, after Saul was anointed, for, if there must be a change in their government, the sooner the better: it might be of bad consequence to be long in the doing. The people having met in a solemn assembly, in which God was in a peculiar manner present... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:13

And when he had made an end of prophesying ,.... For, as Procopius Gazaeus observes, he had not the gift of prophecy always; it did not continue with him, but, like that of the seventy elders in the times of Moses, it was designed to make him respectable among the people, and to be taken notice of as a person that God had honoured with a peculiar gift, that so, when he should be chosen king, they would the more readily receive him: he came to the high place ; to return thanks to God for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:14

And Saul's uncle said unto him, and to his servant, whither went ye ?.... Since they had been absent so long a time. This was his father's brother, as the Targum, and so Aquila; whose name was Ner, the father of Abner, 1 Samuel 14:50 who met with him at the high place, or found him in the city, in his father's house it may be. Josephus F7 Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 6. c. 4.) sect. 3. says, Saul went into the house of his kinsman Abner, whom he loved above all his relations, and that it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:15

And Saul's uncle said , &c.; l On hearing he had been with Samuel, and perceiving so great an alteration in Saul, perhaps he began to suspect something about the kingdom; it being what everyone was talking of, and expecting every day to hear from Samuel who should be king, according to the Lord's appointment: tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you ; the earnestness with which he put this question seems to confirm the above conjecture. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:16

And Saul said unto his uncle ,.... In answer to his question: he told us plainly the asses were found ; or "in telling told us" F8 הגד הגיד "indicando indicavit", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.; ; not only plainly in so many words, but he affirmed it with the greatest certainty that the asses were found, and we need not give ourselves further trouble about them: but of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he told him not ; he said not one word about that, which is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:17

And Samuel called the people together unto the Lord at Mizpeh. Not that in Gilead, but in the tribe of Benjamin, where the people had been before convened on a certain occasion, 1 Samuel 7:5 and the people called together could not be every individual of the nation, but the heads and elders of the people, their representatives, and who were summoned by the orders of Samuel; perhaps by an herald making proclamation and cry of the same, as the word signifies; and these were gathered together... read more

John Gill

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:9-16

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:17-27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:17

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

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

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

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