1 Samuel 15:1-35

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 15:2

I seem to have forgotten, but now I will show that I remember, and now will revenge, those old injuries done four hundred years ago, which now I will punish in their children; which was the more just, because they continued in their parents’ cruel practices, below, 1 Samuel 15:33. In the way when he came up from Egypt; when he was newly come out of cruel and long bondage, and was now weak, and weary, and faint, and hungry, Deuteronomy 25:18; and therefore it was barbarous and inhuman, instead... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 15:3

All that they have, both persons and goods; kill all that live, and consume all things without life; for I will have no name nor remnant of that people, whom long since I have cursed and devoted to utter destruction. Spare them not; show no compassion or favour to any of them. The same thing repeated to prevent mistake, and oblige Saul to the exact performance hereof; or, to leave him without excuse, in case of neglect. Infant and suckling; for their parents’ crime and punishment; which was not... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 15:4

Who are particularly noted here, as also Zechariah 11:8, either as select persons of extraordinary strength and courage; or to commend that tribe, which, though the kingdom had been promised to their own tribe, yet were forward in serving and obeying a king of another, and that a far meaner tribe. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 15:5

A city of Amalek; their chief city, where their king was, as is probable from 1 Samuel 15:8. Laid wait, intending to draw them forth of their city by some pretence, like that of Joshua, Joshua 7:0, and then to intercept them, and so surprise their city: which haply they did, though it be not here recorded, it being not worth while to mention all the minute circumstances of such matters. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 15:6

The Kenites; a people descending from or nearly related unto Jethro, who anciently dwelt in rocks near the Amalekites, Numbers 24:21, and afterwards some of them dwelt in Judah, Judges 1:16, whence it is probable they removed, (which, dwelling in tents, they could easily do,) and retired to their old habitation, because of the wars and troubles wherewith Judah was annoyed. Ye showed kindness; some of your progenitors did so, Exodus 18:12; Numbers 10:31, and for their sakes all of you shall fare... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 15:7

i.e. From one end of their country to the other; he smote all that he met with; but a great number of them fled away upon the noise of his coming, as is usual in such cases, and secured themselves in other places, until the storm was over, when they returned again; of whom we read before, 1 Samuel 13:6; 1 Samuel 14:22. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 15:8

Saul spared Agag, either out of foolish pity for the goodliness of his person, which Josephus notes; or for his respect to his royal majesty, in the preservation of which he thought himself concerned; or for the glory of his triumph: compare 1 Samuel 15:12. All the people, to wit, the body of the people, but not every individual person, as hath been showed. Universal particles are commonly thus understood, as is confessed. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 15:9

Saul and the people; the one proposed to do so, and the other consented to it, and so both were guilty. All that was good; which it is more than probable they reserved for their own use, rather than for sacrifice, because they knew God would not accept a sacrifice contrary to his own command. Thus they obey God only so far as they could without inconvenience to themselves; they destroyed only what was not worth keeping, nor fit for their use. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 15:11

It repenteth me: repentance properly notes grief of heart, and change of counsels, and therefore cannot be in God, who is unchangeable, most wise, and most blessed; but it is ascribed to God in such cases, when men give God cause to repent, and when God alters his course and method of dealing, and treats a person as if he did indeed repent of all the kindness he had showed to him. He cried unto the Lord all night, to implore his pardoning mercy for Saul, and for the people; so far was he from... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 15:12

Carmel; not Mount Carmel, of which Joshua 12:22, but another mountain or town in the tribe of Judah, of which see Joshua 15:55. A place, i.e. a monument or trophy of his victory, as the same Hebrew word is used, 2 Samuel 18:18. And this may be here noted by way of censure, that he set it not to God’s honour, but to himself, i.e. to his own praise; which he minded in the first place, and afterwards went to Gilgal, as it here follows, to offer sacrifice to God. read more

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