1 Samuel 28:11

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

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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...
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 consid...
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....
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...
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 h...
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?...
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 with...
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 d...
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 melanch...
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 Chr...
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, a...
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...
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...
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,...
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.
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Saul Consults the Witch at Endor. B. C. 1055....
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...
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 desperati...
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: ot...
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 o...
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...
The Biblical Illustrator

Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit. Saul and the witch of Endor This narrative is unlike any other in the Bible, and therefore, as mig...
The Biblical Illustrator

Bring me up Samuel. Samuel after death Wise reasons must have prevailed with God for the appearance of Samuel. Dr. Hales has suggested the thre...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

DOWNFALL AND DEATH OF SAUL ( CHS . 28-31.) THE PHILISTINES GATHER TOGETHER FOR WAR . DISTRESS OF SAUL , AND VISIT T...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Consultation with the Witch
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Then said the woman, satisfied that she was now safe, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel, the words indicating the co...
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 t...

¹¹ Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.

Related Commentaries of 1 Samuel 28:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

1 Samuel 28:11