1 Samuel 28:16

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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....
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Then said Samuel . Jehovah might have sent "a lying spirit", and given by it. true message, just as He did in 2 Chronicles 18:19-22 . Nothing was s...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy? Wherefore then dost thou ask...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 again...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Is become thine enemy ] LXX 'is on the side of thy neighbour.' This is based on a probable emendation. If 'neighbour' is right, it must be taken in...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Seeing the Lord is departed from thee. — In other words, If Jehovah have left thee, why comest thou to consult me, His servant and prophet? The H...
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

Listening to His Own Doom 1 Samuel 28:15-25 That there should be an apparition of Samuel occasions no difficulty, for as Moses and Elijah were...
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 Samuel, wherefore then dost thou, ask of me ,.... Whom thou knowest to have been a prophet of the Lord, and therefore can say nothing more...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy? Ver. 16. Wherefore then do...
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's Death Foretold. B. C. 1055. 1...
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 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 Answer Received by Saul
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Then said Samuel, Wherefore, then, dost thou ask of me, seeing the Lord is departed from thee and is become thine enemy? And now the apparition, evid...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 6:27 ; Judges 5:31 ; Lamentations 2:5 ; Psalms 68:1-3 ; Revelation 18:20 ; Revelation 18:24 ; Revelation 19:1-6

¹⁶ Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?

Related Commentaries of 1 Samuel 28:16

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the 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

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 28:16