Bible Commentaries
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
1 Samuel 15
the LORD of hosts. See note on 1 Samuel 1:3.
I remember. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.
how he laid wait. Compare Exodus 17:8.
Now go. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "now therefore go".
Amalek. Compare Exodus 17:16. Numbers 24:20.
utterly destroy = devote to destruction.
man. Hebrew. "ish. App-14.
Kenites. Said to be the same as the Rechabites. Go, depart. Note the Figure of speech Asyndeton in 1 Samuel 15:6.
and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton (App-6) in this verse.
every thing that was vile = all the stock that was worthless.
behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.
place. Hebrew a hand. Either to mark his claim to the place, or a monument, as in 2 Samuel 18:18.
on = over.
sinners. Hebrew. chata". App-44.
they be consumed = they have consumed them. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "thou have consumed them".
sin. Hebrew. chata". App-44.
witchcraft = divination or necromancy; i.e. dealings with spirits.
iniquity. Hebrew. "aven. App-44.
transgressed. Hebrew. `abar. App-44.
commandment. Hebrew "mouth", put by Fig, Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for what is spoken by it.
words. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "word".
the Strength = the Eternal One. First occurrence. Hebrew. nezah. A Divine title.
repent : i.e. as God, though He is said to do so by the Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.
a man. Hebrew. "adam. App-14.
delicately = in fetters (Job 38:31). Septuagint has "trembling"; Vulgate has "sleek and trembling".
As = according as.
hewed: i.e. commanded him to be hewed or cut asunder after death. Verb occurs only here.
Agag. See note on Amalek (Exodus 17:16, and Compare 1 Samuel 15:3).
no more. Compare 1 Samuel 16:1, 1 Samuel 16:14; 1 Samuel 19:23.
Samuel mourned: i.e. as for one dead. We do not read that Saul mourned for himself.
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