Chapter 28:
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1 Samuel 28
The conference between Achish and David, ver. 1-2. The
preparation of the Philistines, and the distress of Saul, ver. 3-6. He
applies to a woman which had a familiar spirit, to raise Samuel,
ver. 7-11. Samuel appears, and foretells his defeat and death, ver.
12-19. Saul faints, and is with difficulty persuaded to take any
sustenance, ver. 20-25.
Verse 2. Can do - He speaks ambiguously, as he did before.
Verse 5. He trembled - Had he kept close to God, he needed not fear all
the armies of the Philistines.
Verse 7. That hath, &c. - One that converseth with the devil, or dead
men's ghosts, and by them can discover future things. See Isaiah
viii, 19.
Verse 8. Disguised - Both because he was ashamed to be known, or
thought guilty of this practice; and because he suspected, the
woman, had she known him, would not practice her art before
him.
Verse 11. Samuel - Whose kindness and compassion as he had formerly
experienced, so now he expected it in his deep distress. This
practice of divination by the dead, or the souls of dead persons,
was very usual among all nations.
Verse 12. Saw Samuel - The words are express, the woman saw Samuel,
instead of the spirit whom she expected to see, God ordering it so
for his own glory. She cried with a loud voice - Terrified and
astonished, and thence easily conjectured, whom she had been
talking with.
Verse 13. Gods - That is, a God, and divine person, glorious, and full of
majesty and splendour, exceeding not only mortal men, but
common ghosts. She used the plural number, gods, either after the
manner of the Hebrew language, which commonly uses that word
of one person: or, after the language and custom of the heathens.
Verse 14. A mantle - The usual habit of prophets, and particularly of
Samuel, chap. xv, 27. If it was not Samuel, but an other spirit in
his shape, it is not true, that Saul perceived it was Samuel. It
seems Saul did not see him, so soon as the woman, which
occasioned his asking those questions.
Verse 15. Called Samuel - Happy had it been, if he had called Samuel
sooner, or rather the God of Samuel! It was now too late:
destruction was at hand and God had determined, it should not be
stayed.
Verse 17. To him - To David.
Verse 19. Tomorrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: "What do these
solemn words portend? A gleam of hope when life shall end.
Thou and thy sons, tho' slain shall be Tomorrow in repose with
me. Not in a state of health or pain If Saul with Samuel doth
remain; Not in a state of damn'd despair, If loving Jonathan is
there." Tho' these words may only mean, ye shall surely die,
without any reference to the state of their souls after death. See
note on "chap. xxxi, 8"
Verse 20. Fell - As if the Archers of the Philistines had already hit him,
and there was no strength in him, to bear up against these heavy
tidings: especially, as we cannot doubt, but all his past sins were
now brought to his remembrance and what authority has any man
to affirm, that he felt no contrition all this time? Altho' it did not
seem good to the holy ghost, to leave it upon record?
Verse 21. Came to Saul - From whom she departed, when she had
brought him and Samuel together, that they might more freely
converse together.
Verse 24. Unleavened - Not having time to leaven it.
Chapter 28:
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| Matthew Henry
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| 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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