Chapter 15

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am 2925, bc 1079, An, Ex, Is, 412

The Lord 1Sam 15:17-18, 1Sam 9:16, 1Sam 10:1

hearken 1Sam 15:16, 1Sam 12:14, 1Sam 13:13; 2Sam 23:2-3; 1Chr 22:12-13; Ps 2:10-11


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I remember Jer 31:34; Hos 7:2; Amos 8:7

Amalek Exod 17:8-16; Num 24:20; Deut 25:17-19


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Now go The Amalekites, a people of Arabia Petrea, who inhabited a tract of country on the frontiers of Egypt and Canaan, had acted with great cruelty towards the Israelites on their coming out of Egypt, and God then purposed that Amalek, as a nation, should be blotted out from under heaven; but it had been spared till it had filled up the measure of its iniquities, and now this purpose is carried into effect by Saul, upwards of 400 years afterwards! Nothing could justify such an exterminating decree but the absolute authority of God; and this was given. All the reasons of it we do not know; but this we know well, the Judge of all the earth doeth right.

utterly destroy Lev 27:28-29; Num 24:20; Deut 13:15-16, Deut 20:16-18; Josh 6:17-21

slay Exod 20:5; Num 31:17; Isa 14:21-22

ox and sheep Gen 3:17-18; Rom 8:20-22


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Telaim Josh 15:24, Telem

two 1Sam 11:8, 1Sam 13:15


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laid wait or, fought, 1Sam 15:5


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the Kenites 1Sam 27:10; Num 24:21-22; Judg 1:16, Judg 4:11, Judg 5:24; 1Chr 2:55

depart Gen 18:25, Gen 19:12-16; Num 16:26-27, Num 16:34; Prov 9:6; Acts 2:40; 2Cor 6:17; Rev 18:14

ye showed Exod 18:9-10, Exod 18:19; Num 10:29-32; 2Tim 1:16


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smote 1Sam 14:48; Job 21:30; Eccl 8:13

Havilah This Havilah was probably situated in Arabia, and the district of Chaulon may mark the spot. It seems different from that encompassed by the river Pison, one of the rivers of Eden. Gen 2:11, Gen 25:18

Shur 1Sam 27:8; Gen 16:7


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Agag 1Sam 15:3; Num 24:7; 1Kgs 20:30, 1Kgs 20:34-42; Esth 3:1

utterly 1Sam 27:8, 1Sam 30:1; Josh 10:39, Josh 11:12


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the best 1Sam 15:3, 1Sam 15:15, 1Sam 15:19; Josh 7:21

the fatlings or, the second sort, 2Sam 6:13


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repenteth me 1Sam 15:35; Gen 6:6; 2Sam 24:16; Ps 110:4; Jer 18:7-10; Amos 7:3; Jonah 3:10, Jonah 4:2

turned Josh 22:16; 1Kgs 9:6; Ps 36:3, Ps 78:41, Ps 78:57, Ps 125:5; Zeph 1:6; Matt 24:13; Heb 10:38

hath not performed 1Sam 15:3, 1Sam 15:9, 1Sam 13:13

it grieved 1Sam 15:35, 1Sam 16:1; Ps 119:136; Jer 9:1, Jer 9:18, Jer 13:17; Luke 19:41-44; Rom 9:1-3

he cried 1Sam 12:23; Ps 109:4; Matt 5:44; Luke 6:12


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Carmel 1Sam 25:2; Josh 15:55; 1Kgs 18:42

he set him 1Sam 7:12; Josh 4:8-9; 2Sam 18:18

a place Yad, Literally as the LXX render χειρα, a hand; probably because the trophy or monument of victory was in the shape of a large hand, the emblem of power, erected on a pillar. These memorial pillars were anciently much in use; and the figure of a hand, by its emblematical meaning, was well adapted to preserve the remembrance of a victory. Niebuhr, speaking of the Mesjed Ali, or Mosque of Ali, says that, "at the top of the dome, where one generally sees on the Turkish mosques a crescent, or only a pole, there is here a hand stretched out, to represent that of Ali." Another writer informs us, that at the Alhamra, or red palace of the Moorish kings in Grenada, "on the key-stone of the outward arch [of the present principal entrance] is sculptured the figure of an arm, the symbol of strength and dominion."


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Blessed 1Sam 13:10; Gen 14:19; Judg 17:2; Ruth 3:10

I have performed 1Sam 15:9, 1Sam 15:11; Gen 3:12; Prov 27:2, Prov 28:13, Prov 30:13, Prov 31:31; Luke 17:10, Luke 18:11


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What meaneth Ps 36:2, Ps 50:16-21; Jer 2:18-19, Jer 2:22-23, Jer 2:34-37; Mal 3:13-15; Luke 19:22; Rom 3:19; 1Cor 4:5


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for 1Sam 15:9, 1Sam 15:21; Gen 3:12-13; Exod 32:22-23; Job 31:33; Prov 28:13

to Matt 2:8; Luke 10:29


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Stay 1Sam 9:27, 1Sam 12:7; 1Kgs 22:16


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When thou 1Sam 9:21, 1Sam 10:22; Judg 6:15; Hos 13:1; Matt 18:4

the Lord 1Sam 15:1-3, 1Sam 10:1


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the sinners Gen 13:13, Gen 15:16; Num 16:38; Job 31:3; Prov 10:29, Prov 13:21

they be consumed Heb. they consume them


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fly upon Prov 15:27; Jer 7:11; Hab 2:9-12; 2Tim 4:10

didst evil 2Chr 33:2, 2Chr 33:6, 2Chr 36:12


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Yea 1Sam 15:13; Job 33:9, Job 34:5, Job 35:2, Job 40:8; Matt 19:20; Luke 10:29, Luke 18:11; Rom 10:3

have brought 1Sam 15:3, 1Sam 15:8


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the people 1Sam 15:15; Gen 3:13; Exod 32:22-23


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Hath the Lord Ps 50:8-9, Ps 51:16-17; Prov 21:3; Isa 1:11-17; Jer 7:22-23; Hos 6:6; Amos 5:21-24; Mic 6:6-8; Matt 9:13, Matt 12:7, Matt 23:23; Heb 10:4-10

obey Exod 19:5; Eccl 5:1; Jer 7:23, Jer 11:4, Jer 11:7, Jer 26:13; Hos 6:6; Matt 5:24; Mark 12:33


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rebellion 1Sam 12:14-15; Num 14:9; Deut 9:7, Deut 9:24; Josh 22:16-19; Job 34:37; Ps 107:11; Jer 28:16, Jer 29:32; Ezek 2:5-8

witchcraft Heb. divination, Exod 22:18; Lev 20:6, Lev 20:27; Deut 18:10-11; Isa 8:19, Isa 19:3; Rev 22:15

stubbornness 2Cor 6:16; Gal 5:20; Rev 21:8

thou hast rejected 1Sam 2:30, 1Sam 13:14, 1Sam 16:1; 2Kgs 17:15-20; 1Chr 28:9


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I have sinned 1Sam 15:30; Exod 9:27, Exod 10:16; Num 22:34; 2Sam 12:13; Matt 27:4

I feared 1Sam 15:9, 1Sam 15:15; Exod 23:2; Job 31:34; Prov 29:25; Isa 51:12-13; Luke 23:20-25; Gal 1:10; Rev 21:8

obeyed 1Sam 2:29; Gen 3:12, Gen 3:17; Jer 38:5


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pardon Exod 10:17


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I will not 1Sam 15:31; Gen 42:38, Gen 43:11-14; Luke 24:28-29; 2John 1:11

for thou 1Sam 15:23, 1Sam 2:30, 1Sam 13:14, 1Sam 16:1; Jer 6:19; Hos 4:6


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The Lord 1Sam 28:17-18; 1Kgs 11:30-31

hath given 1Sam 2:7-8; Jer 27:5-6; Dan 4:17, Dan 4:32; John 19:11; Rom 13:1

a neighbour 1Sam 13:14, 1Sam 16:12; Acts 13:22


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Strength or, Eternity, or, Victory, Deut 33:27; Ps 29:11, Ps 68:35; Isa 45:24; Joel 3:16; 2Cor 12:9; Phil 4:13

will not lie Num 14:28-29, Num 23:19; Ps 95:11; Ezek 24:14; 2Tim 2:13; Titus 1:2; Heb 6:18


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honour me now Hab 2:4; John 5:44, John 12:43

that I may worship Isa 29:13; Luke 18:9-14; 2Tim 3:5


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Agag said Jer 48:44; 1Thess 5:3; Rev 18:7


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As thy sword Gen 9:6; Exod 17:11; Num 14:45; Judg 1:7; Matt 7:2; Jas 2:13; Rev 16:6, Rev 18:6

Samuel It has been a matter of wonder to many, how Samuel could thus slay a captive prince, even in the presence of Saul, who from motives of clemency had spared him; but it should be remarked, that what Samuel did here, he did in his magisterial capacity; and that Agag had been a cruel tyrant, and therefore was cut off for his merciless cruelties. Farther, it is not likely that he did it by his own sword, but by that of the executioner. What kings, magistrates, and generals do, in an official way, by their subjects, servants, or soldiers, they are said to do themselves - qui facit per alterum, facit per se.

hewed Num 25:7-8; 1Kgs 18:40; Isa 34:6; Jer 48:10


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Gibeah 1Sam 11:4


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Samuel 1Sam 19:24

Samuel mourned 1Sam 15:11, 1Sam 16:1; Ps 119:136, Ps 119:158; Jer 9:1-2; Rom 9:2-3; Phil 3:18

repented 1Sam 15:11; Gen 6:6


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