Verse 12
12. Who is their father Not his father, as the Septuagint and other versions presume to amend the Hebrew text, for this was not a contemptuous question; and otherwise it would have been meaningless in the mouth of a man of Gibeah, who must have known the father of Saul, but, Who is the father of them? that is, of the prophets: who makes prophets? Is it not God? and cannot he make a prophet of the son of Kish as easily as of any other man? The gift of prophecy comes not by natural descent, but by inspiration of the Almighty; and this fact was ever suggested by the proverb, afterwards common in Israel, Is Saul also among the prophets?
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