1 Samuel 13:7

1 Samuel 13:7 -

Some of the Hebrews. A contemptuous name for Israel (see 1 Samuel 13:3 ). If the reading is correct, it must be used here of a cowardly portion of the people (as in 1 Samuel 14:21 ), for the insertion of some of in the A.V. is unjustifiable. But by a very slight change, simply lengthening the stalk of one letter, we get a very good sense: "And they went over the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead ," i.e. to the mountainous district in which the Jordan rises.

SAUL 'S RASH SACRIFICE ( 1 Samuel 13:8-14 ).

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

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1 Samuel 13:7 -

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