1 Samuel 28:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy? ”

• 1 Samuel 28:16 - 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 28:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Then said Samuel . Jehovah might have sent "a lying spirit", and given by it. true message, just as He did in 2 Chronicles 18:19-22 . Nothing was said but what was well known before. become thine...

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• 1 Samuel 28:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy? Wherefore then dost thou ask of me - Was ever I wont to give answers that were...

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• 1 Samuel 28:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth...

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• 1 Samuel 28:16 - 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 28:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Seeing the Lord is departed from thee. — In other words, If Jehovah have left thee, why comest thou to consult me, His servant and prophet? The Hebrew word here translated “enemy” is only found i...

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• 1 Samuel 28:16 - 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 28:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Listening to His Own Doom 1 Samuel 28:15-25 That there should be an apparition of Samuel occasions no difficulty, for as Moses and Elijah were permitted to speak with our Lord of the “decease”...

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• 1 Samuel 28:16 - 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 28:16 - 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 28:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then said Samuel, wherefore then dost thou, ask of me ,.... Whom thou knowest to have been a prophet of the Lord, and therefore can say nothing more or less than what comes from him, and is accordin...

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• 1 Samuel 28:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy? Ver. 16. Wherefore then dost thou ask of me? ] Samuel himself could not have...

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• 1 Samuel 28:16 - 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 28:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Saul's Death Foretold. B. C. 1055.       15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquiete...

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• 1 Samuel 28:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• 1 Samuel 28:16 - 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 28:16 - 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 28:16 - 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 28:16 - 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 28:16 - 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 28:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Answer Received by Saul

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• 1 Samuel 28:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Kings 6:27 ; Judges 5:31 ; Lamentations 2:5 ; Psalms 68:1-3 ; Revelation 18:20 ; Revelation 18:24 ; Revelation 19:1-6

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