1 Samuel 28:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel. ”

• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Bring me up Samuel - Dr. Trench observes, “All human history has failed to record a despair deeper or more tragic than his, who, having forsaken God and being of God forsaken, is now seeking to m...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up (e) Samuel. (e) He speaks according to his gross ignorance not considering the state of the saints after this life, and...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  1 Samuel 28:2 is continued by 1 Samuel 29:1 ; the connexion is broken by the insertion of 1 Samuel 28:3-25 . Saul and the Witch of Endor. This section interrupts the connexion; moreover,...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  up . Note: not down, or forth. Compare 1 Samuel 28:13 .

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel. Whom shall I bring up - The woman certainly meant no more than making her familiar personify whomsoever the quer...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Then said Saul—Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit— Utterly forsaken of God, yet anxiously desirous of searching into futurity, Saul, who had prayed to God to no purpose, now resolved to ap...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel. Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? - i:e., evoke from Sheol, Hades, the invisible sub...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Saul and the Witch of Endor 1 Samuel 28:3-25 come from another document and interrupt the connexion, as will be seen if the account is read without them. In order of time their proper position i...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Bring me up Samuel. — A remarkable passage in the Babylonian Talmud evidently shows that, at all events in the Rabbinical Schools of a very early date, the bringing up of Samuel was looked upon as...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XXXIV. SAUL AT ENDOR. 1 Samuel 28:3-25 . FOR a considerable time Saul had been drifting along like a crippled vessel at sea, a melancholy example of a man forsaken of God. But as his d...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Resorting to a Familiar Spirit 1 Samuel 28:1-14 This chapter records the climax to which Saul's sins led, and which sealed his fate. See 1 Chronicles 10:13-14 . He went back to that which he h...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  It is strange how this story has been made to serve in defense of things occult, which, as a matter of fact, it condemns. Let it be carefully read, and it becomes perfectly patent that this woman had...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (8) And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then said the woman, whom shall I bring up unto thee ?.... For such persons, according to their profession, pretended they were able to bring up any of the dead, that he who inquired of them should...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel. Ver. 11. Bring me up Samuel, ] i.e., Spectrum Samuelis, an apparition of Saumel. Saul neglected to heark...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He said, Bring me up Samuel As he had formerly experienced Samuel's kindness and compassion, so now he expected it in his deep distress.

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  The inevitable conflict between Israel and the Philistines arises again, and David finds himself in an unpleasant situation Achish tells him that he and his men must accompany Achish to fight against...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Saul Consults the Witch at Endor. B. C. 1055.       7 Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Whose kindness and compassion to him, as he had formerly experienced, so now he expected it in his deep distress. This practice of divination by the dead, or by the ghosts or souls of dead persons, c...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Saul Consults A Necromancer And Samuel Appears To Him ( 1 Samuel 28:3-19 ). Having been unable to obtain any response from God, Saul, in desperation, determined to turn to a necromancer. It would,...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 28:1 . “Know thou assuredly.” Some expositors regard these words of Achish as designed to try David: others think they express the entire confidence whic...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Samuel 28:4 . Shunem, in the tribe of Issachar, not far from mount Hermon. 1 Samuel 28:7 . A woman that hath a familiar spirit: a mistress of OB. See Deuteronomy 18:11 . The LXX read pytho...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Night preceding battle As the flash of lightning reveals the hidden scenery around, so the reception of momento...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  DOWNFALL AND DEATH OF SAUL ( CHS . 28-31.) THE PHILISTINES GATHER TOGETHER FOR WAR . DISTRESS OF SAUL , AND VISIT TO THE WITCH OF ENDOR ( 1 Samuel 28:1-9 .)...

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Consultation with the Witch

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• 1 Samuel 28:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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 us...

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