Chapter 13:
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1 Samuel 13
Saul and Jonathan's life-guard, ver. 1, 2. Jonathan smites a
garrison, and the people are called together, ver. 3, 4. The
Philistines come up, and the Israelites are terrified, ver. 5-7. Saul
sacrifices, ver. 8-10. Is reproved by Samuel, ver. 11-14. The
people diminished, plundered, and disarmed, ver. 15-23.
Verse 3. Blew - That is, he sent messengers to tell them all what
Jonathan had done, and how the Philistines were enraged at it, and
therefore what necessity there was of gathering themselves
together for their own defense.
Verse 4. Saul - Perhaps contrary to some treaty.
Verse 5. Thirty thousand chariots, &c. - Most of them, we may suppose,
carriages for their baggage, not chariots of war, tho' all their allies
were joined with them.
Verse 6. Strait - Notwithstanding their former presumption that if they
had a king, they should be free from all such straits. And hereby
God intended to teach them the vanity of confidence in men; and
that they did not one jot less need the help of God now, than they
did when they had no king. And probably they were the more
discouraged, because they did not find Samuel with Saul. Sooner
or later men will be made to see, that God and his prophets are
their best friends.
Verse 7. All the people - That is, all that were left.
Verse 8. Seven days - Not seven compleat days; for the last day was not
finished.
Verse 11. Camest not - That is, when the seventh day was come, and a
good part of it past, whence I concluded thou wouldst not come
that day.
Verse 12. Supplication - Thence it appears, that sacrifices were
accompanied with solemn prayers. Forced myself - I did it against
my own mind and inclination.
Verse 13. For ever - The phrase, for ever, in scripture often signifies
only a long time. So this had been abundantly verified, if the
kingdom had been enjoyed by Saul, and by his son, and by his
son's son; after whom the kingdom might have come to Judah.
Verse 14. A man - That is, such a man as will fulfil all the desires of his
heart, and not oppose them, as thou dost. Commanded - That is,
hath appointed, as the word command is sometimes used: but
though God threatened but Saul with the loss of his kingdom for
his sin; yet it is not improbable, there was a tacit condition
implied, to wit, if he did not repent of this; and of all his sins; for
the full, and final, and peremptory sentence of Saul's rejection, is
plainly ascribed to another cause, chap. xv, 11, 23, 26, 28, 29, and 'till that second offense, neither the spirit of the
Lord departed from him, nor was David anointed in his stead.
"But was it not hard, to punish so little a sin so severely?" It was
not little: disobedience to an express command, tho' in a small
matter, is a great provocation. And indeed, there is no little sin,
because there is no little God to sin against. In general, what to
men seems a small offense, to him who knows the heart may
appear a heinous crime. We are taught hereby, how necessary it
is, that we wait on our God continually. For Saul is sentenced to
lose his kingdom for want of two or three hours patience.
Verse 20. Philistines - Not to the land of the Philistines, but to the
stations and garrisons which the Philistines retained in several
parts of Israel's land, though Samuel's authority had so far over-
awed them, that they durst not give the Israelites much
disturbance. In these, therefore, the Philistines kept all the smiths;
and here they allowed them the exercise of their art for the uses
following.
Verse 22. Sword - It seems restrained to the six hundred that were with
Saul and Jonathan; for there were no doubt a considerable number
of swords and spears among the Israelites, but they generally hid
them, as now they did their persons, from the Philistines. And the
Philistines had not yet attained to so great a power over them, as
wholly to disarm them, but thought it sufficient to prevent the
making of new arms; knowing that the old ones would shortly be
decayed, and useless. There were likewise other arms more
common in those times and places, than swords and spears; to wit,
bows and arrows, and slings and stones.
Chapter 13:
| Darby
| Geneva
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| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Ruth 2 Samuel
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