PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — I Samuel
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 188,900 words · 450 reading sections
1 Samuel 8:9
1 Samuel 8:9 Ver. 9. Now therefore hearken unto their voice,.... And appoint them a king as they desire: howbeit, yet protest solemnly unto them; not against the thing itself, which was permitted, but against the evil of their request, as to the unseasonable time, ill manner, and unjustifiable reason, in and for whic…
247 wordsSECTION 1221 Samuel 8:10
1 Samuel 8:10 Ver. 10. And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto them,.... How he considered this request of theirs as a rejection of him as their king, and that it was acting the same ungrateful part they had always done; and since they were so importunate to have it granted, it should be done; but that he was o…
113 wordsSECTION 1231 Samuel 8:11
1 Samuel 8:11 Ver. 11. And he said, this will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you,.... Not in which he ought to proceed, but what he will do: and this not the manner of one king, or of the first only, but of all of them, more or less; of kings in general, who are commonly inclined to arbitrary power. S…
356 wordsSECTION 1241 Samuel 8:12
1 Samuel 8:12 Ver. 12. And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties,.... Which though posts of honour, yet when they are not matter of choice, and especially being precarious, and depending on the arbitrary will of a prince, are not eligible, and less so to persons that choose another sor…
182 wordsSECTION 1251 Samuel 8:13
1 Samuel 8:13 Ver. 13. And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries,.... Such as deal in spices, and mix them, and make them up in various forms very agreeable to the taste. Men are commonly in our countries and times employed in such arts, but it seems this was the business of women in those times and places…
165 wordsSECTION 1261 Samuel 8:14
1 Samuel 8:14 Ver. 14. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards,.... Which includes the whole increase of their land, their corn, and wine, and oil; and it is these, the fruits of their fields, vineyards, and oliveyards, which are here meant; for otherwise kings might not, and did not by t…
126 wordsSECTION 1271 Samuel 8:15
1 Samuel 8:15 Ver. 15. And he will take the tenth of your seed,.... When grown up and ripe, as their wheat and barley: and of your vineyards; the tenth of the grapes they should produce: and give to his officers, and to his servants; for the support and maintenance of them; and to pay this, besides the tithes of the…
234 wordsSECTION 1281 Samuel 8:16
1 Samuel 8:16 Ver. 16. And he will take your manservants, and your maidservants,.... Into his own family, for his own use and service, if he wants them, or likes them better than what he has: and your goodliest young men: that are tall and lusty, comely and beautiful, of a proper stature and good aspect; and such in …
145 wordsSECTION 1291 Samuel 8:17
1 Samuel 8:17 Ver. 17. He will take the tenth of your sheep,.... As well as of their seed and vineyards; and not the tithe of their flocks only, but of their herds also, which are here included, as Kimchi observes: and ye shall be his servants: made slaves of by him, even as the Canaanitish servants were, according t…
83 wordsSECTION 1301 Samuel 8:18
1 Samuel 8:18 Ver. 18. And ye shall cry out in that day, because of your king,.... His power and pride, his oppression and tyranny, his heavy exactions, and intolerable yoke, and yet not be able to free themselves from them; all that they could do would be only to cry out under them as grievously distressed, and not k…
214 wordsSECTION 1311 Samuel 8:19
1 Samuel 8:19 Ver. 19. Nevertheless, the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel,.... The advice he gave not to think of a king, but be content with the government under which they were; but to this they would not hearken, notwithstanding all the inconveniences that would attend such a change: and they said, nay, …
158 wordsSECTION 1321 Samuel 8:20
1 Samuel 8:20 Ver. 20. That we also may be like all the nations,.... Even though they were slaves, like them; a king they would have, as they had, such was their stupidity. It was their greatest honour and glory, as well as happiness, not to be like other nations; as in their religion, laws, and liberties, so in their…
522 wordsSECTION 1331 Samuel 9:1
1 Samuel 9:1 INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 9 This chapter gives an account of Saul, the person the Lord had appointed to be king of Israel; it relates his descent, and describes his person, 1Sa 9:1 and how seeking his father's asses, which were lost, he providentially came to the place where Samuel dwelt, 1Sa 9:3 and …
497 wordsSECTION 1341 Samuel 9:2
1 Samuel 9:2 Ver. 2. And he had a son whose name was Saul,.... Of this name was the great apostle of the Gentiles before his conversion, and was of the same tribe also; but very different in stature; he was a little man, this a large tall man, like his father perhaps; a choice young man, and a goodly; 1Sa 2:1 of a go…
561 wordsSECTION 1351 Samuel 9:3
1 Samuel 9:3 Ver. 3. And the asses of Kish, Saul's father, were lost,.... Had got out of the stables or fields, in which they were kept, and strayed from thence: and Kish said to Saul his son, take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses; he chose not to send his servants only, who might not b…
176 wordsSECTION 1361 Samuel 9:4
1 Samuel 9:4 Ver. 4. And they passed through Mount Ephraim,.... The mountainous part of that tribe, which lay contiguous to the tribe of Benjamin, where it might be supposed the asses had strayed to: and passed through the land of Shalisha; a tract in the tribe of Benjamin, so called from some illustrious person, pri…
323 wordsSECTION 1371 Samuel 9:5
1 Samuel 9:5 Ver. 5. And when they were come to the land of Zuph,.... In which was Ramathaimzophim, the native place of Samuel, 1Sa 1:1 and so the Targum here, "the land in which was the prophet'' Saul said to the servant that was with him, come, and let us return; home, despairing of finding the asses after so long…
150 wordsSECTION 1381 Samuel 9:6
1 Samuel 9:6 Ver. 6. And he said unto him,.... That is, the servant of Saul: behold, now, there is in this city a man of God; a prophet of the Lord, as the Targum; such were called men of God, because not only partakers of the grace of God, but of extraordinary gifts, which qualified them for the office of prophets. …
242 wordsSECTION 1391 Samuel 9:7
1 Samuel 9:7 Ver. 7. Then Saul said to his servant, but behold, if we go,.... The Targum is, "if he receives money,'' which it seems Saul was not clear in; some sort of persons that set up for prophets, and a sort of diviners and fortune tellers, did; but he could not tell whether so eminent and honourable a person …
417 wordsSECTION 1401 Samuel 9:8
1 Samuel 9:8 Ver. 8. And the servant answered Saul again, and said,.... As he had answered him before, when Saul proposed to return home, by telling him there was an honourable man of God in the city near at hand, that might possibly be able to direct them which way they should go to find the asses: so he answers him …
243 wordsSECTION 1411 Samuel 9:9
1 Samuel 9:9 Ver. 9. Before time in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God,.... To ask doctrine of him, as the Targum, to be taught by him, to have his mind and will in any affair of moment and importance; which was usually done by applying to some man of God, eminent for grace and piety, and a spirit of prophecy: …
469 wordsSECTION 1421 Samuel 9:10
1 Samuel 9:10 Ver. 10. Then said Saul to his servant, well said,.... Or "good is thy word" {d}, thou hast well spoken; it is a good proposal thou hast made, and thou art very generous to give all thou hast to the man; and very promising it is, that since he is a seer he may inform us where the asses are, or which way …
131 wordsSECTION 1431 Samuel 9:11
1 Samuel 9:11 Ver. 11. And as they went up the hill to the city,.... For the city was built upon an hill, from whence it had the name of Ramah, which signifies high and lifted up: they found young maidens going out to draw water: going out of the city, to a fountain which was at the bottom of the hill; and this was t…
200 wordsSECTION 1441 Samuel 9:12
1 Samuel 9:12 Ver. 12. And they answered them, and said, he is,.... That is, he is in the city, at home, and to be spoken with: behold, he is before you; his house is straight before you as you go along, you cannot miss of it. Some Jewish writers say {f} they gave a token to know it by, that there was a cloud at the …
418 wordsSECTION 1451 Samuel 9:13
1 Samuel 9:13 Ver. 13. As soon as ye come into the city, ye shall straightway find him,.... By which it seems that the house of Samuel was at that end of it at which they entered; and with which agrees what is observed in the preceding verse, that "he was before them", his house was in sight of them: before he go up …
3,743 wordsSECTION 1461 Samuel 10:1
1 Samuel 10:1 INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 10 In this chapter we read of Saul's being anointed king by Samuel, 1Sa 10:1, and of certain signs given as confirming the same, which should come to pass, and did, before Saul got to his father's house, 1Sa 10:2, of his arrival at his father's house, and of what passed betw…
533 wordsSECTION 1471 Samuel 10:2
1 Samuel 10:2 Ver. 2. When thou art departed from me today,.... Not as soon as he was departed, for he had some few miles to go from Ramah to Rachel's grave near Bethlehem: thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre, in the border of Benjamin, at Zelzah; the Jews move a difficulty here, that Rachel's sepulchre sho…
566 wordsSECTION 1481 Samuel 10:3
1 Samuel 10:3 Ver. 3. Then shall thou go on forward from thence,.... From Zelzah and Rachel's sepulchre there: and thou shall come to the plain of Tabor; not that which lay at the bottom of the famous and well known mountain Tabor; for that was in the tribe of Zebulun, at a great distance from hence: but a plain, so …
315 wordsSECTION 1491 Samuel 10:4
1 Samuel 10:4 Ver. 4. And they will salute thee,.... Not as king, of which they knew nothing, but in a common way; and though a stranger and unknown to them, yet finding their hearts disposed and affected towards him, would inquire of his welfare, and wish him all happiness, peace, and prosperity: and give thee two […
281 wordsSECTION 1501 Samuel 10:5
1 Samuel 10:5 Ver. 5. After that thou shall come to the hill of God,.... The Targum is, the hill in which was the ark of the Lord, and that was in the house of Abinadab, on a hill in the city of Kirjathjearim, 1Sa 7:1 and so the Jewish commentators generally interpret this hill of God of Kirjathjearim; but rather it w…
530 wordsSECTION 1511 Samuel 10:6
1 Samuel 10:6 Ver. 6. And the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee,.... As a spirit of prophecy, so the Targum; whereby he would be enabled at once to compose psalms and hymns of praise, and sing them in a proper manner, though he had not been trained up in this exercise in the school of the prophets; which made it …
223 wordsSECTION 1521 Samuel 10:7
1 Samuel 10:7 Ver. 7. And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee,.... And are all fulfilled, especially the last: that thou do as occasion shall serve thee: as his circumstances would require, and as he in his great wisdom and prudence, with which he should now be furnished, would see necessary to prepare for…
141 wordsSECTION 1531 Samuel 10:8
1 Samuel 10:8 Ver. 8. And thou shall go down before me to Gilgal,.... Not immediately; for the first summons of the people, and of Saul, and the first meeting of them by Samuel, were at Mizpeh, where Saul was chosen by lot; nor the first time of Saul's being at Gilgal, when the kingdom was renewed; for Saul had no nee…
393 wordsSECTION 1541 Samuel 10:9
1 Samuel 10:9 Ver. 9. And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel,.... When he had taken his leave of him, and set forward on his journey: God gave him another heart; not in a moral or spiritual sense, not a new heart, and a new spirit, as in conversion, but in a civil sense, a right heart, a he…
216 wordsSECTION 1551 Samuel 10:10
1 Samuel 10:10 Ver. 10. When they came thither to the hill,.... Or, to Gibeah, as the Targum, and so Josephus {e}: behold, a company of prophets met him; as foretold, 1Sa 10:5, and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he prophesied among them; the spirit of prophecy, as the Targum, and he sung praises among the…
129 wordsSECTION 1561 Samuel 10:11
1 Samuel 10:11 Ver. 11. And it came to pass, that when all that knew him before time,.... As there must be many that personally knew him, and were acquainted with him, since Gibeah, the place he was near to, was his native place: saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets; or praised among them, as the Targum…
187 wordsSECTION 1571 Samuel 10:12
1 Samuel 10:12 Ver. 12. And one of the same place answered, and said,.... One of the same city, and in the same company, that expressed their admiration at what was come to Saul, and at what he did, and wondering how he came into such company, and to have such a gift, who was of so mean an education: but who is their…
3,509 wordsSECTION 1581 Samuel 11:1
1 Samuel 11:1 INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 11 This chapter relates the distress the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead were in on account of the Ammonites, 1Sa 11:1 upon which they sent messengers to Saul, whose spirit was immediately stirred up to help them, 1Sa 11:4, and prepared for it, and came up soon enough for their …
250 wordsSECTION 1591Sa 12:12
1Sa 12:12 and all the men of Jabeshgilead said unto Nahash, make a covenant with us; they desired to be his allies and confederates, live in peace and friendship with him, and enjoy their religion and liberties on certain conditions they were willing to come into; and this was the sense of them all, or at least the gr…
176 wordsSECTION 1601 Samuel 11:2
1 Samuel 11:2 Ver. 2. And Nahash the Ammonite answered them,.... In a very haughty and scornful manner: on this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes; some Jewish writers go into a mystical and allegorical sense of these words, as that Nahash ordered the book of the law …
271 wordsSECTION 1611 Samuel 11:3
1 Samuel 11:3 Ver. 3. And the elders of Jabesh said,.... The magistrates and principal men of the city: give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers to all the coasts of Israel; that is, cease from besieging them, from throwing in darts into the city, or any other missive weapons, and from attempting to b…
251 wordsSECTION 1621 Samuel 11:4
1 Samuel 11:4 Ver. 4. Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul,.... Where he was born, and brought up, and now dwelt; and he being elected king, it brought an honour to the place; and from hence had this name, to distinguish it from the others, and this is the first time it was so called. Now the messengers from Jab…
236 wordsSECTION 1631 Samuel 11:5
1 Samuel 11:5 Ver. 5. And, behold, Saul came after the herd out the field,.... Where he had been to look after the and take care of them, and see what condition they were in, and followed them on their return home; for though he was elected king, he was not inaugurated, and did not take upon him any state; and being d…
373 wordsSECTION 1641 Samuel 11:6
1 Samuel 11:6 Ver. 6. And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings,.... And filled him with pity and compassion to the inhabitants of Jabesh, and with wisdom and prudence, and set his thoughts at work to contrive ways and means for their relief, and with fortitude, courage, and resolution, to attem…
99 wordsSECTION 1651 Samuel 11:7
1 Samuel 11:7 Ver. 7. And he took a yoke of oxen,.... Of his own or his father's, which he had just followed out of the field, and for which chiefly that circumstance is mentioned: and hewed them in pieces; as the Levite did his concubine, Jud 19:29 and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of m…
318 wordsSECTION 1661 Samuel 11:8
1 Samuel 11:8 Ver. 8. And when he numbered them at Bezek,.... Which was the place appointed to meet at, the same with that in Jud 1:4, See Gill on "Jud 1:4" though some take the word to be an appellative, and not, the proper name of a place, and render it, "with a stone"; with which he numbered, taking a stone from ea…
362 wordsSECTION 1671 Samuel 11:9
1 Samuel 11:9 Ver. 9. And they said unto the messengers that came,.... From Jabeshgilead, that is, Saul and Samuel said to them, as follows: thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabeshgilead: when they returned unto them, as they were now upon the departure: tomorrow, by that time the sun be hot; when it smites with th…
205 wordsSECTION 1681 Samuel 11:10
1 Samuel 11:10 Ver. 10. Therefore the men of Jabesh said,.... To Nahash the Ammonite: tomorrow we will come out unto you; meaning if they had no help, which they were well assured they should have; but this condition they expressed not, which they were not obliged to, but left him to conclude they had no hope of any,…
126 wordsSECTION 1691 Samuel 11:11
1 Samuel 11:11 Ver. 11. And it was so on the morrow,.... After the messengers were returned, and delivered their message, and the men of Jabeshgilead had given the Ammonites reason to expect that they would come out to them according to their agreement: that Saul put the people into three companies; or "heads" {a}, u…
308 wordsSECTION 1701 Samuel 11:12
1 Samuel 11:12 Ver. 12. And the people said unto Samuel,.... By which it seems that Samuel accompanied Saul in this expedition; though it is somewhat difficult to account for it, that a man of his years should be able to attend so quick a march that Saul made; it may be, therefore, that he might follow after him gentl…
196 wordsSECTION 1711 Samuel 11:13
1 Samuel 11:13 Ver. 13. And Saul said,.... Preventing Samuel from giving an answer, being ready to forgive injuries; as it was in his power as a king, and him only, to pardon those persons that treated him in so ill a manner, and it was policy so to do, especially in the beginning of his reign; and it plainly appears …
246 wordsSECTION 1721 Samuel 11:14
1 Samuel 11:14 Ver. 14. Then said Samuel to the people,.... Agreeing to what Saul had said, and in order to put them off from demanding the lives of the offenders, and willing to take them while they were in a good disposition: come, and let us go to Gilgal; which was the nearest place to them, on the other side Jord…
477 wordsSECTION 1731 Samuel 12:1
1 Samuel 12:1 INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 12 In this chapter Samuel, resigning the government to Saul, asserts the integrity with which he had performed his office, and calls upon the people of Israel to attest it, who did, 1Sa 12:1, he then reminds them of the great and good things the Lord had done for them in tim…
282 wordsSECTION 1741 Samuel 12:2
1 Samuel 12:2 Ver. 2. And now, behold, the king walketh before you,.... He invested with his office, and in the exercise of it, and goes in and out as the captain, commander, and leader of the people; it is expressive of his being in the full possession of regal power and authority, and therefore Samuel might speak th…
370 wordsSECTION 1751 Samuel 12:3
1 Samuel 12:3 Ver. 3. Behold, here I am,.... No longer the supreme governor, but a subject, and accountable for any misdemeanour charged upon me, and to which I am ready to give answer, being now at your bar to be tried and judged before you: witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed; signifying, th…
412 wordsSECTION 1761 Samuel 12:4
1 Samuel 12:4 Ver. 4. And they said,.... One in the name of the rest, or they all cried out as one man: thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us; had done them no wrong, neither privately nor publicly, by fraud or by force: neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand; as a gift, present, or bribe, to fit you…
123 wordsSECTION 1771 Samuel 12:5
1 Samuel 12:5 Ver. 5. And he said unto them, the Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day,.... Should they hereafter reproach and vilify him, and charge him with any acts of corruption, injustice, and violence: that ye have not found ought in my hand; that they had nothing to accuse him of an…
225 wordsSECTION 1781 Samuel 12:6
1 Samuel 12:6 Ver. 6. And Samuel said unto the people,.... Having cleared and established his own character, he proceeds to lay before the people some of the great things God had done for them formerly, and quite down to the present time, the more to aggravate their ingratitude in rejecting God as their King: [it is]…
230 wordsSECTION 1791 Samuel 12:7
1 Samuel 12:7 Ver. 7. Now therefore stand still,.... Keep your place, and do not as yet break up the assembly, but wait a little longer patiently, and with reverence and attention hearken to what I have further to say: that I may reason with you before the Lord; as in his presence; and which he observes to command th…
134 wordsSECTION 1801 Samuel 12:8
1 Samuel 12:8 Ver. 8. When Jacob was come into Egypt,.... With his family to see his son Joseph, and dwelt there; or rather the posterity of Jacob are meant, who settled in Egypt, and continued there many years, and at length were oppressed by the Egyptians, and brought into hard bondage: and your fathers cried unto …
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Public domain; John Gill (1697–1771). Source item is marked Public Domain on Internet Archive.
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.