THE HOLY BIBLE (Darby Translation) Darby's Notes on 1 Samuel

1:1e Ephrathite: Or 'Ephraimite,' the Levites being considered as belonging to the tribe in which they lived: see Judg. 17:7.
1:2f Hannah: Meaning, 'grace.'
1:6a adversary: Or 'rival.'
1:16b Belial: See Deut. 13:13.
1:20c Samuel: Meaning, 'heard of God,' or 'asked for of God.'
2:1a said: Vers. 1-10 are poetical in Hebrew.
2:1b in: Or 'by.'
2:3c knowledge: The Hebrew is plural.
2:6d Sheol: See Gen. 37:35.
2:8e earth: Erets, 'land' or 'country.'
2:8f world: Tebel, 'habitable earth:' see Prov. 8:31.
2:9g saints: Chasid, 'pious,' 'holy:' see Note c, Deut. 33:8; 2Chron. 6:42; Ps. 4:3.
2:9h prevail: Or 'be powerful.'
2:13i servant: Lit. 'young man.'
2:15a burned, 2:16a burn: See Lev. 1:9
2:17b offering: Minchah, 'oblation:' see Note b, Lev. 1:3
2:22c served: Or 'crowded:' see Ex. 38:8.
2:25d judge: Here 'judge' as an arbitrator.
2:27e in: Or 'of,' 'belonging to.'
2:28f upon: Or 'go up to.'
2:30g saith: See Note, Gen. 22:16.
2:32h oppressor: Tzar, 'adversary.'
2:32i amidst: Or 'shalt see the distress of my habitation in.'
2:32a ever, 2:35a continually: Lit. 'all the days.'
2:36b into: Or 'attach me, I pray thee, to.'
3:1c frequent: Or 'was not published,' lit. 'spread:' see 2Chron. 31:5
3:10d stood: As Gen. 18:2.
3:13e vile: Or 'accursed.'
3:14f be: Lit. 'if ... be;' a strong negation: see Num. 14:23, 28, 30.
4:1a Eben-ezer: Meaning, 'stone of help:' see ch. 7:12.
4:2b spread: Or 'became general.'
4:4c between: Or 'on;' as Ps. 80:1, &c.
4:10d tent: Or 'home:' so chs. 13:2; 17:54.
4:13e the: Or 'his.'
4:21a Ichabod: Meaning, 'no glory;' or, 'where is the glory?'
5:4b fish-stump: Or 'Dagon.' Dag signifies 'fish.'
6:1a country: Lit. 'fields:' see Ruth 1:1.
6:4b them: Or 'you.'
6:18a Abel: Or 'peasantry: the great stone is witness:' 'stone' is in LXX, but in few MSS. 'Witness' is conjectural.
6:19b men: Some add 'fifty thousand.'
7:1c hill: Or 'at Gibeah.'
7:2d long: Lit. 'the days were many.'
7:12a Shen: Or 'the rock;' lit. 'tooth:' see ch. 14:4. ('sharp'), 5.
7:12b Eben-ezer: See ch. 4:1.
8:11c manner: Or 'right,' as ch. 10:25.
8:15a chamberlains: Or 'eunuchs.'
8:17b sheep: Or also 'goats.'
9:1c mighty: Gibbor: see Gen. 6:4
9:1d wealth: Or 'valour.'
9:2e Saul: Meaning 'asked for.'
9:5f, 9:7f, 9:8f servant: Lit. 'young man:' and vers. 22, 27.
9:7g if: Lit. 'behold.'
9:7h vessels: See Gen. 42:25.
9:10a servant: Lit. 'young man:' and vers. 22, 27.
9:15b apprised: See Ruth 4:4
9:20c all: Others read 'Whose shall be everything desirable in Israel? Shall it not be thine and all ...?'
9:21d tribe: Or 'clans;' lit. 'tribes:' see Judg. 20:12.
9:27a now: Or 'a moment.'
10:9b gave: Lit. 'turned.'
10:10c hill: Or 'Gibeah,' as ch. 7:1.
11:9a deliverance: Lit. 'there shall be salvation for you.'
12:3b ransom: Or 'payment,' 'bribe.'
12:7c still: Or 'present yourselves.'
12:7d with: Lit. 'judge,' shaphat.
12:11a Bedan: The LXX and other ancient versions have 'Barak.'
12:14b, 12:15b commandment: Lit. 'mouth.'
12:21c vain: Lit. 'emptiness:' see Isa. 40:17, &c.
12:24d for: Lit. 'with.'
13:1e ...: Critics in general suppose a hiatus, from the difficulty there is in translating the present text, which would mean, 'Saul was a year old when he became king.' The whole verse is wanting, in LXX.
13:2f Jonathan: Meaning, 'The gift of Jehovah.'
13:10a salute: Lit. 'bless.'
13:14b appointed: Lit. 'commanded.'
13:21c forks: Forks of three prongs.
14:5a crag: Strictly, 'tooth,' shen.
14:14b acre: Strictly, 'yoke,' i.e. as much as a yoke of oxen can plough in a day.
14:16c another: Or 'went on dispersing.'
14:18a God: * LXX has 'Bring hither the ephod, for he was wearing the ephod.'
14:21b Philistines: Or 'who belonged, as bondmen, to the Philistines.'
14:25c ground: Lit. 'on the face of the field.'
14:28d faint: Or '... this day! And the people were faint.'
14:34e sheep: Or 'goat;' and so ch. 15:3.
14:35a built: Lit. 'with it he began to build an altar.'
14:38b heads: Lit. 'corners,' 'corner-stones,' as Judg. 20:2.
14:48c valiantly: Or 'gathered a force,' 'formed an army.'
14:51d Abiel: Or 'And Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner ... was the son of Abiel.'
15:5a valley: Or 'torrent.' See Note, Deut. 2:14.
15:9b bearing: Or 'fatted beasts.'
15:9c lambs: Fat lambs fed on rich pasture.
15:12d Carmel: In Judah. See Josh. 15:55.
15:12e monument: Lit. 'hand.'
15:21a choicest: 'First-fruits.'
15:21b devoted: Devoted by curse to destruction.
15:22c obedience: Or 'to hearken.'
15:23d idolatry: 'Teraphim,' i.e. 'idols.'
15:24e commandment: Lit. 'mouth.'
15:32f gaily: Some translate 'in fetters;' as Job 38:31, 'the bands.'
15:33g above: Or 'among.'
15:35h and: Or 'because.'
16:3i name: Lit. 'say.'
16:4a him: Or 'trembled at his coming.'
16:7b countenance: Or 'aspect.'
16:7c appearance: Lit. 'the eyes:' see Ex. 10:5; Num. 11:7.
16:12d countenance: Lit. 'beautiful-eyed.'
16:13e David: Meaning,'Beloved.'
16:15f from: Lit. 'of:' so vers. 16, 23; chs. 18:10; 19:9.
17:1a armies: Or 'camps:' so ch. 28:1.
17:3b on: Rather, 'towards.'
17:4c champion: Lit. 'middle-man;' and so ver. 23.
17:10d defied: Or 'reproached;' and so vers. 25, 26, 36, 45.
17:17e quickly: Or 'run.'
17:26a, 17:36a armies: Strictly, 'ranks,' as vers. 10, 45.
17:29b me: Or, 'Is there not a cause?'
17:40a brook: Or 'valley,' as Deut. 2:14.
17:45b armies: 'ranks,' as vers. 10, 26, 36.
17:45c whom: Or 'which.'
17:50d overcame: Or 'was stronger than.'
17:51e completely: An intensive form of the Hebrew verb.
18:5a forth: i.e., for warlike raids, as Judg. 11:3, &c.
18:5b, 18:14b, 18:15b prospered: Or 'behaved wisely:' see ver. 30; Jer. 23:5.
18:6c triangles: The word is differently understood; some interpret it 'noble songs.' It is as 'excellent things' in Prov. 22:20.
18:11d thought: Lit. 'said;' so ver. 17; ch. 20:3, 26.
18:11e wall: That is 'transfix him to the wall.'
18:14f and: Or 'for.'
18:21a time: Some connect 'a second time' with the preceding clause; others translate, 'by one of the two.'
18:30b forth: As Judg. 11:3, &c., see also ver. 5
18:30c better: Or 'prospered more.' See ver. 5 and Note, Prov. 1:3.
19:6d be: Heb. 'if he be:' see ch. 3:14.
19:10a wall: See Note e, ch. 18:11
19:13b image: Heb. 'teraphim.'
19:13c net: A protection from gnats.
19:19d by: Or 'in.'
20:19a day: Lit. 'thou shalt leave three days.'
20:19b Ezel: * Meaning, 'Departure,' or 'Separation.'
20:31a die: Lit. 'he is a child of death:' similarly in ch. 26:16. See Deut. 25:2.
20:35b place: Or 'at the time.'
21:11a sing: As Ex. 32:18.
22:2b spirit: Or 'discontented,' or 'sorrowful:' so ch. 30:6.
22:14a council: Or 'goes in at thy bidding.'
23:3a armies: As ch. 17:36.
23:22a subtilly: Or 'prudently.'
23:24b plain: The Arabah: see Josh. 3:16.
23:28c Sela-hammahlekoth: Meaning, 'rock of escapes,' or 'of divisions.'
24:7a checked: Or 'chided.'
24:11b for: Or 'huntest after.'
24:19c reward: Or 'Jehovah will reward.'
25:2d Carmel: In Judah: see Josh. 15:55.
25:3e Nabal: Meaning, 'fool,' 'ungodly,' 'impious:' see 2Sam. 3:33; Ps. 14:1; Prov. 30:22, &c.
25:3a churlish: Lit. 'hard.'
25:14b insulted: Lit. 'he flew upon.'
25:25a Nabal: See ver. 3.
25:25b folly: Or 'impiety.' The Hebrew word is from the same root as the name 'Nabal.'
25:26c avenging: Lit. 'saving' or 'delivering,' also in vers. 31, 33.
25:30d appoint: Lit. 'command.'
26:24a esteemed: Lit. 'great.'
27:10a south: Those portions of the Negeb inhabited respectively by Judah, the Jerahmeelites, and the Kenites: see Judg. 1:16.
28:1b armies: Or 'camps,' as in ch. 29:1.
28:2c person: Lit. 'head.'
28:3d necromancers: Or 'those who had a spirit of Python;' and so ver. 9. See Acts 16:16.
28:6e Urim: See Neh. 7:65.
28:13a god: Or 'gods.' Heb. elohim.
28:19b army: Or 'camp,' as ver. 1; ch. 29:1, &c.
29:6a me: Lit. 'good in mine eyes;' and so elsewhere.
30:1b south: The Negeb: so ver. 14. See Josh. 10:40.
30:14a south: See ch. 27:10.
30:26a present: Lit. 'a blessing:' see ch. 25:27.
30:27b Ramoth: Or 'Ramoth-Negeb:' see Josh. 19:8.
31:3c terrified: Or 'wounded.'
31:10d Ashtaroth: Or 'of the Ashtoreths (Astartes).' see Note, Judg. 2:13

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