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Saul had apparently attempted to avoid Samuel and therefore had gone home by the way of Gilgal. Here the king and the seer meet. Saul is the first to speak. Though the spectacle of the approaching seer with a visage registering holy indignation must have filled his soul with evil forebodings, Saul p
As we have seen, Saul refuses to sumbit to his sentence of deposition and the loss of his kingdom pronounced over him by Samuel in the name of God. Contrary to the revealed will of the Lord that he abdicate his throne to make room for his God-appointed successor, Saul is determined to maintain himse
Saul, too, went to Gilgal -- for there he had called the people together after him -- in fulfilment of the prophetic command of Samuel uttered in his audience perhaps as long as two years ago on the day of his secret anointing, "And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal" (I Sam. 10:8). Thus Saul's
The two words that the sacred narrator uses to describe Saul's person are choice or excellent (Hebrew, Eachoor) and good (thobh). Not alone that he was such a man but, says the narrator, there was none of all the children of Israel better, goodlier, than he. The statement does not ascribe to Saul th
Saul, then, has a twofold defense: 1. "The people spared", he declares. Hence, the blame rests upon them, and he is without fault. Yet, at verse 9 it is stated, "Saul and the people spared". Besides, supposing the people had spared the good oxen, yet he, the king, permitted it; the people dared not
For he wanted to be his own master. That was his sin. Saul, as seized by the Spirit, was "turned into another man. Further on the text reads that God "gave him another heart (Hebrew, turned him another heart). According to the Scriptures, the heart is the ethical center of the whole inward life, the
Saul had walked a long and bitter road of the persecution of God's anointed David. And at the end of that road stood God. Saul met God in Mount Gilboa. And God undid Saul there in Mount Gilboa. That's the reality for ungodly man. When ungodly man strengthens himself in his wickedness, in his im
The matter with Saul is a bit more general and different. Here we have the case where Saul wanted to take David and do him harm, but when he sent messengers to take David, they ended up being overcome by the Spirit and were as it were in a trance prophesying. Thus Saul went himself.
Who was Saul? From verse 1, we learn about his lineage. Now there was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power. Saul was from the tribe of Benjamin, the smallest tribe in Israel. Saul's
He “led a small and mobile band against the invaders, took them by surprise, pursued them across Jordan and wrought great havoc in their ranks.” p. 20. Or take this description of Saul: “The tragedy of Saul is that he was a sincerely religious man, deeply concerned to do the will of Yahweh, and Samu