1 Samuel 9:7-8
bring .................. take <0935> [what shall.]
bags ... used up <0235 03627> [spent in. Heb. gone out of, etc. there is not.]
We are not to suppose from this that the prophets took money to predict future events: Saul only refers to an invariable custom, that no man approached a superior without some present or another, however small in value. Dr. Pococke tells us of a present of fifty radishes! Other authors mention a flower, an orange, or similar trifles; and Mr. Bruce says, that one who wished to solicit a favour from him, presented him with about a score of dates! "I mention this trifling circumstance," says Mr. B. "to shew how essential to human and civil intercourse presents are considered to be in the East; whether it be dates, or whether it be diamonds, they are so much a part of their manners, that without them, an inferior will never be at peace in his own mind, or think that he has hold of his superior for protection. But superiors give no presents to their inferiors." Presents then are tokens of honour; not intended as offers of payment or enrichment.
[have we. Heb. is with us.]
happen to have .... hand <03027 04672> [I have here at hand. Heb. there is found in my hand.]
1 Samuel 9:2
young man <0970> [choice.]
shoulders <07926> [from his shoulders.]
1 Samuel 5:1
captured <03947> [took.]
Ebenezer <072> [Eben-ezer.]
Ashdod <0795> [Ashdod.]
Ashdod, called Azotus by the Greeks, was one of the five satrapies of the Philistines, and a place of great strength and consequence. It was situated near the Mediterranean, between Askelon and Jamnia, thirty-four miles north of Gaza, according to Diodorus Siculus, and the Antonine and Jerusalem Itineraries. It is now called Shdood; and Dr. Richardson says they neither saw nor heard of any ruins there. "The ground," he observes, "around Ashdod is beautifully undulating, but not half stocked with cattle. The site of the town is on the summit of a grassy hill; and, if we are to believe historians, was anciently as strong as it was beautiful."
[Azotus.]
Jeremiah 40:5
turn to leave ........ Go back <07725> [Go back.]
Ahikam <0296> [Ahikam.]
<03212> [or go.]
gave .... food <05414 0737> [gave him.]
food .... present <04864 0737> [victuals and a reward.]
Rather, "victuals, ({aruchah,} a stated allowance, sufficient for the journey,) and a present," {masse„th.}
Malachi 1:10
close <05462> [Who.]
Instead of {mi,} "who," one MS. (30 K.) with the LXX reads {ki,} "surely," which is adopted by Houbigant and Abp. Newcome, who renders, "Surely the doors shall be closed against you, neither shall ye kindle the fire of my altar in vain."
close <05462> [even.]
light ......................... accept <0215 07521> [neither.]
pleased <02656> [I have.]
Acts 8:18-20
offered <4374> [he offered.]
your <4675> [Thy.]
you thought <3543> [thou.]
gift <1431> [the gift.]
Acts 8:1
And Saul .................................. and <1161 4569 5037 2532> [And Saul.]
This clause evidently belongs to the conclusion of the previous chapter; there is scarcely a worse division of chapters than this.
<1096> [there.]
church <1577> [the church.]
And .......................... were forced to scatter ....... and <1161 5037 2532 1289> [and they.]
Samaria <4540> [Samaria.]
except <4133> [except.]
Acts 5:2
He kept back <3557> [kept.]
<846> [his.]
placed <5087> [laid.]
