“ And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. ”
XV. The War against Amalek; Saul's Disobedience and Deposition (E). - A section of a secondary narrative; according to the scheme adopted here, the last section of this document was 1 Samuel 3:3...
And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. Saul came to a city of Amalek - I believe the original should be translated, and Saul came to the city Amalek; their capital being call...
And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. Came to a city of Amalek - probably their capital. Laid wait in the valley - following the strategic policy of Joshua at Ai...
Saul's Victory over Amalek. His Disobedience and Rejection Amalek had attacked Israel at Rephidim ( Exodus 17:8 ) and opposed their entrance into Canaan ( Numbers 14:45 : cp. Deuteronomy 25:7 ;...
A city of Amalek. — Better rendered, The city of Amalek : no doubt, their principal place of arms. And laid wait in the valley. — Better, in a torrent bed, then dry (Arabic, “Wady”). There is a...
CHAPTER XXI. THE FINAL REJECTION OF SAUL 1 Samuel 15:1-35 . HERE we find the second portion of God's indictment against Saul, and the reason for his final rejection from the office to which he...
Leading the People in Disobedience 1 Samuel 15:1-16 Several years intervened between the preceding chapter and this. The kingdom had become strong and prosperous. It seemed as though Samuel's s...
Saul was commissioned by Jehovah through Samuel to smite Amalek, and it was in connection with this that the sin occurred which filled his cup to the brim and caused him to be rejected. His campaign...
(4) And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. (5) And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley...
And Saul came to a city of Amalek ,.... With his army, perhaps the nearest city of it to the land of Israel; though some think that Amalek was the name of the city, and was the metropolis of the nat...
And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. Ver. 5. And laid wait in the valley. ] Or, Skirmished by the burn or brook: declining the mountains, lest it should have proved prej...
Saul came to a city of Amalek Or, to the city of Amalek. For the metropolis of the kingdom seems to be here meant, the name of which some have thought was Amalek. And laid wait in the valley Or...
God had a more solemn controversy with the Amalekites than with the Philistines. The mere formal worship typified by the Philistines is empty; but Amalekite "lusts of the flesh" are a deadly enemy th...
The Amalekites Destroyed. B. C. 1065. 1 Samuel also said unto Saul, The L ORD sent me t...
A city of Amalek; their chief city, where their king was, as is probable from 1 Samuel 15:8 . Laid wait, intending to draw them forth of their city by some pretence, like that of Joshua, Jos...
Saul's Campaign Against The Amalekites And His Sacrilege With Regard To The Devoted Things ( 1 Samuel 15:4-9 ). 1 Samuel 15:4 ‘ And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two h...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 15:4 . “Telaim.” Most likely the same as Telem ( Joshua 15:21 ; Joshua 15:24 ), a city lying on the eastern border of Judah, and therefore near the te...
1 Samuel 15 (with 1 Timothy 1:19 ) The story of Saul is among the saddest which Scripture anywhere contains. I. Notice first the singular elements of nobleness which are to be traced in his n...
1 Samuel 15:2 . I remember what Amalek did; Numbers 17:8 ; and what he has often repeated, in the effusion of innocent blood. He joined Midian, and the children of the east, in a bloody and unpro...
FINAL REJECTION OF SAUL ( 1 Samuel 15:1-9 .) EXPOSITION DIVINE COMMAND TO PUNISH THE AMALEKITES , AND ITS EXECUTION BY SAUL ( 1 Samuel 15:1-9 ). 1 Samuel 15:1...
The Unauthorized Action of Saul
1 Samuel 15:5
To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice 1 Samuel 15:1-28 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Disobedience is black with the frown of God. Sin is the transgression of the Law. Disobedience is taking one's own way, as...