1Sa 15:1-8 - Commentary

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Text -- 1 Samuel 15:1-8 (NET)

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Saul Is Rejected as King

15:1 Then Samuel said to Saul, “I was the one the Lord sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now listen to what the Lord says. 15:2 Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed Israel along the way when Israel came up from Egypt. 15:3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare them. Put them to death– man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’” 15:4 So Saul assembled the army and mustered them at Telaim. There were 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah. 15:5 Saul proceeded to the city of Amalek, where he set an ambush in the wadi. 15:6 Saul said to the Kenites, “Go on and leave! Go down from among the Amalekites! Otherwise I will sweep you away with them! After all, you were kind to all the Israelites when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites withdrew from among the Amalekites. 15:7 Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is next to Egypt. 15:8 He captured King Agag of the Amalekites alive, but he executed all Agag’s people with the sword.

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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:

· Agag king of the Amalekites in Samuel's time

· Amalek members of the nation of Amalek

· Amalekites members of the nation of Amalek

· Egypt descendants of Mizraim

· Havilah son of Cush son of Ham son of Noah,son of Joktan of Shem,a region encircled by the Pishon River,a place whose exact position is unknown

· Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel

· Judah the son of Jacob and Leah; founder of the tribe of Judah,a tribe, the land/country,a son of Joseph; the father of Simeon; an ancestor of Jesus,son of Jacob/Israel and Leah; founder of the tribe of Judah,the tribe of Judah,citizens of the southern kingdom of Judah,citizens of the Persian Province of Judah; the Jews who had returned from Babylonian exile,"house of Judah", a phrase which highlights the political leadership of the tribe of Judah,"king of Judah", a phrase which relates to the southern kingdom of Judah,"kings of Judah", a phrase relating to the southern kingdom of Judah,"princes of Judah", a phrase relating to the kingdom of Judah,the territory allocated to the tribe of Judah, and also the extended territory of the southern kingdom of Judah,the Province of Judah under Persian rule,"hill country of Judah", the relatively cool and green central highlands of the territory of Judah,"the cities of Judah",the language of the Jews; Hebrew,head of a family of Levites who returned from Exile,a Levite who put away his heathen wife,a man who was second in command of Jerusalem; son of Hassenuah of Benjamin,a Levite in charge of the songs of thanksgiving in Nehemiah's time,a leader who helped dedicate Nehemiah's wall,a Levite musician who helped Zechariah of Asaph dedicate Nehemiah's wall

· Kenite resident(s) of the southeastern hill country of Judah

· Samuel son of Ammihud; Moses' land distribution deputy for Simeon,son of Tola son of Issachar

· Saul the sixth king of Edom,son of Simeon and a Canaanite woman,son of Uzziah of Kohath son of Levi

· Shur the wilderness region in the NW part of the Sinai isthmus

· Telaim a place in the Negeb of Judah (OS)

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 1Sa 15:1 Heb “to the voice of the words of the Lord” (so KJV).

NET Notes: 1Sa 15:2 Heb “he”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

NET Notes: 1Sa 15:3 Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).

NET Notes: 1Sa 15:4 Heb “people.”

NET Notes: 1Sa 15:5 That is, “the dry stream bed.”

NET Notes: 1Sa 15:6 The translation follows the Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate which assume a reading אֶסִפְךָ (’esf...

NET Notes: 1Sa 15:7 Heb “[as] you enter.”

NET Notes: 1Sa 15:8 Heb “all the people.” For clarity “Agag’s” has been supplied in the translation.

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