1 Samuel 17:16
forty days <03117 0705> [forty days.]
1 Samuel 13:1
[A.M. 2911. B.C. 1093. An. Ex. Is. 398.]
reign ... ruled <04427 01121> [reigned one year. Heb. the son of one year in his reigning.]
This verse is variously interpreted; but probably it only means, according to the Hebrew idiom, that, during the first year nothing remarkable occurred; but after two years, (or in the second year of his reign,) the subsequent events took place.
1 Samuel 4:18
mentioned <02142> [when he made.]
neck <04665> [his neck.]
judged <08199> [And he had.]
"He seems to have been a judge to do justice only, and that in south-west Israel."