1 Samuel 19:24

clothes: i.e. his robes, or armour, or both.

naked. Compare 1 Samuel 18:4, i.e. stripped of outer garments.

Is Saul... ? Figure of speech Parcemia. App-6.

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²⁴ And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?

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1 Samuel 19:24