1 Samuel 15:29

The strength of Israel - A phrase which occurs only here. The word means, perpetuity, truth, glory, victory, and trust, or confidence.

Related Commentaries of 1 Samuel 15:29

Arno Geneva Study Bible

And also the (m) Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he [is] not a man, that he should repent. (m) Meaning God, who maintains and prefer...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

XV. The War against Amalek; Saul's Disobedience and Deposition (E). - A section of a secondary narrative; according to the scheme adopted here, the...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the Strength . the Eternal One. First occurrence. Hebrew. nezah. . Divine title. repent : i.e. as God, though He is said to do so by the Figure o...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent. The Strength of Israel will not lie - What God...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And also the Strength of Israel— According to the original, and the Margin of our Bibles, it is, he who gives victory, and disposes of kingdoms,...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent. The Strength of Israel will not lie, х...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Saul's Victory over Amalek. His Disobedience and Rejection Amalek had attacked Israel at Rephidim ( Exodus 17:8 ) and opposed their entrance into...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The Strength of Israel will not lie. — This title of the Eternal, here rendered “the Strength of Israel,” would be better rendered the Changeless...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 f...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Shallow Repentance Unavailing 1 Samuel 15:17-35 Samuel was deeply moved when he heard of Saul's failure, “and he cried unto the Lord all night....
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(26) And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent ,.... Neither of the evil which he had threatened to Saul in taking away the kingdom from hi...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he [is] not a man, that he should repent. Ver. 29. And also the Strength (or Eternity)...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Lord hath rent the kingdom from thee Hath declared his firm resolution of laying aside thy family, and will soon actually take away thy life an...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

God had a more solemn controversy with the Amalekites than with the Philistines. The mere formal worship typified by the Philistines is empty; but Am...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Saul's Dethronement Foretold. B. C. 1065....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He calls God the Strength of Israel; partly, to show the reason why God neither will nor can lie; because lying is a weakness, and proceeds from th...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Samuel Seeks Saul Out In Order To Give Him A Stern Rebuke And Declare That YHWH Has Withdrawn From Him His Support ( 1 Samuel 15:12-31 ). We do no...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 15:25 . “Pardon my sin.” “He offers this prayer to Samuel , not to God .” “Turn again with me.” “Ac...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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 ele...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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, a...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

FINAL REJECTION OF SAUL ( 1 Samuel 15:1-9 .) EXPOSITION DIVINE COMMAND TO PUNISH THE AMALEKITES , AND ITS EXECUTION B...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Saul's Humiliation
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And also the Strength of Israel, the Lord, who is the Refuge, the Confidence of Israel, will not lie nor repent, He would not change this judicial...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 12:9 ; 2 Timothy 2:13 ; Deuteronomy 33:27 ; Ezekiel 24:14 ; Hebrews 6:18 ; Isaiah 45:24 ; Joel 3:16 ; Numbers 14:28 ; Numbers...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Strength of Israel — So he calls God here, to shew the reason why God neither will nor can lie; because lying proceeds from the sense of a man's we...

²⁹ And also the Strengthc of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.

Related Commentaries of 1 Samuel 15:29

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

1 Samuel 15:29