His clothes, to wit, his military or royal garments; which he did, either that he might suit himself and his habit to the rest of the company; or because his mind being altogether taken up with Divine things, he did not understand or heed what he did. Also: this implies that the messengers which he sent, who probably were military persons, had done so before him. Prophesied before Samuel: this doth not contradict 1 Samuel 15:35, where it is said that Samuel came no more to see Saul; for here Saul goes to Samuel, and that not with design to see him, but to surprise David. In like manner; as the rest of the prophets there did. Lay down, Heb. fell, to wit, down upon the earth; for his mind being in an ecstasy, he had not the use of his senses or motion, as he Numbers 24:4; God so ordering it, that David might have an opportunity to escape. Naked, i.e. stripped of his upper garments, as was said before, and as the word naked is oft used, as Isaiah 20:2 Micah 1:8. See also 2 Samuel 6:20 1 Thessalonians 21:7. And it is here repeated to signify how long he lay in that posture. All that day and all that night; so God kept him as it were in chains, till David was got out of. his reach. Is Saul also among the prophets? The same proverb which was taken up upon a like occasion, 1 Samuel 10:12, is here remembered and revived upon this new occasion, as an evidence of God's wonderful care over David; he made Saul in some sort a prophet, that he might make David a king.
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1 Samuel 19:24
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?