1 Samuel 28:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Samuel said: i.e. the spirit personating Samuel said. Just as it is done in the present day by the medium: never directly.

disquieted. If Samuel, then it shows he was "quiet" before.

me. Not my spirit.

God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.

no more. Therefore certainly not by means which He had expressly forbidden. See Leviticus 19:31; Leviticus 20:6; Leviticus 20:27; Deuteronomy 18:10; Deuteronomy 18:13, &c.

by prophets. Saul omits the reference to "Urim" because it would remind him of the murder of the priests (1 Samuel 22:18; 1 Samuel 22:19). See note on 1 Samuel 28:6.

1 Samuel 28:15

15 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 me no more, neither by prophets,a nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.