i. At the very least, Saul knew that God did not want him hunting David, hoping to kill him. The Hebrew word used for robe in 1 Samuel 15:27 (meheel) is the same word used for mantle in 1 Samuel 28:14. One of the most obvious clues is that the text tells the reader outrighttwice!that the Lord would not answer Saul ( I Samuel 28:6, 15-16), and there is . In Matthew twenty-seven we read, "And the graves of many of the saints were opened, and they were seen walking through the streets of Jerusalem after His resurrection from the dead. Perhaps the woman meant that the man she saw looked like a judge or like a divine being because he was imposing. Again therefore he has recourse to Jehovah. It doesnt matter what kind of impressive encounter one has with a spiritual being; even if an angel from heaven (or Samuel himself!) 1 Samuel 16 Commentary. Click to enable/disable Google Analytics tracking. That is why these spirits are called "lying spirits" (1 Kings 22:22). Once indeed it had been in grace, typically at least while the law subsisted; now it was in government. 1:1 - 8:22 Of Samuel's resignation of the government and Saul's advancement and mal-administration, 1 Sam. He merely confirmed what he had told Saul earlier concerning Gods rejection of him. Evidently she expected contact with a demon posing as Samuel, but, to her amazement, God really permitted Samuel, or a vision of him, to appear. a. i. c. Why do you ask me, seeing the LORD has departed from you and has become your enemy? They took their measures with skill. Jehovah judge between me and thee, and Jehovah avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. And suppose you, my brethren, that there is no such reality as the power of evil working in unseen ways, and by demons with and in man? "So Samuel coming up out of the earth, spoke to Saul telling him that God had departed from him. ( 1 Samuel 28:6) God will not speak to Saul. Nevertheless, whatever be our judgment as to this, the tender love of Jonathan to David on this last occasion is most affecting, and the mingling too of what was truly of God with what showed the weakness of the earthen vessel. but, since he can discern no comfort either from heaven or earth (Isaiah 8:21; Isaiah 8:22), he resolves to knock at the gates of hell, and to see if any there will befriend him and give him advice: Seek me a woman that has a familiar spirit,1 Samuel 28:7; 1 Samuel 28:7. Here the Philistines are seen mustering in thousands, while the Israelites pitch by a fountain in Jezreel. Evil works are works of darkness, and they hate the light, neither care for coming to it. Grace had thus achieved not merely a great victory for David, but a greater victory in him. And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil. It is common for sinners to be more afraid of punishment from men than of God's righteous judgment. And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground and did homage. So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings." Here then we find David, as we are told, in the cave of Adullam; "and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him." She considered what Saul had done, not what God had done, against such practices, and feared a snare laid for her life more than a snare laid for her soul. Only there is no reason for a believer who walks with God, and far from all tampering or meddling or curiosity, to be in the smallest degree alarmed as to such a transaction as we find here. Poor gods that ascend out of the earth! Because it was not the familiar spirit she expected, but Samuel whom God alone could send. Note, Hopes of impunity embolden sinners in their evil ways and harden their hearts. And the woman said unto him, Behold, you know what Saul hath done, he has cut off all of those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards out of the land: why are you laying a snare for my life, to cause me to die? This first book gives us a full account of Eli's fall and Samuel's rise and good government, 1 Sam. The design of the Philistines against Israel. For the king condescended nay, was blinded by the power of Satan, to employ his herdsman Doeg, an Edomite, against the priests of Jehovah! In this certainly he was right; he spoke almost as a prophet of Jehovah. Not only were the Philistines set against him, so was the LORD God. a. If God was going to put forth His power, and to establish David at the head of Israel, He would make it most evident both to David and every one else who has an ear to hear that it was of His pure grace. Where was self-judgment for the sin which had forfeited the kingdom? And he stooped . When we reject the word of the LORD we can still be comforted by the fact that He speaks to us. And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him. And tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. Of what stature is he? Samuel had anointed him to the kingdom and had formerly been his faithful friend and counsellor, and therefore with him he wished to advise. Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the mountains of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. So Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped at Gilboa. ii. 1 Samuel 18 Commentary. From that store must he be supplied as much as from any other. Properly speaking, Samuel was not in heaven. Some interpreters have concluded that a demon who impersonated Samuel came up. The fact that they can hypnotize a person and put them in age regression, take them back before their birth, and then supposedly go back to previous lives, and get the names of Annie Murphy and the street she lived on, and all this kind of stuff, doesn't prove reincarnation at all. He had been far from God. Powerless before his princes, Achish could only beg David to go in peace, that he might not to his own peril displease the Philistine lords past all power of healing. Saul promises with an oath not to betray her, 1 Samuel 28:10; 1 Samuel 28:10. Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly. The spirit of Samuel was brought back, and that it was a genuine experience of dealing with spirits that have departed and are in the other world.It would seem that the witch herself was shocked because of what happened. Samuel had told Saul, "The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today" (1 Samuel 15:28; cf. So it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. But there is all the difference possible between this and what was seen here. shall this fellow come into my house?" Here, I repeat, it was not an evil spirit, it was the spirit of Samuel; and only God has the control of the dead. "And he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee. However, what this being proceeded to say in 1 Samuel 28:16-19 argues against this view. All of a sudden she realized the truth, "That's Saul." And the Lord hath done to him, as he spoke by me: for the Lord has taken the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbour, even to David: And because you obeyed not the voice of the Lord, nor executed his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the Lord done this thing unto thee this day. But I am convinced that even as it is written, so it happened, and that somehow Samuel did come back. Then he arose from the ground and sat on the bed. Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? "Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon? (Antiqu. Benson Commentary 1 Samuel 28:14. But now that he is dead, "O for Samuel again! It was necromancy or divination by the dead, that he hoped to serve his purpose by. We do find in His history that the restrictions of the law and its regulations lose their force as He passes on rejected to the cross. The desire and opportunity to repent are gifts from God. Gods word to Saul didnt change from the time He first said it until the time it would be fulfilled. Saul said, Bring me up Samuel, and the very next words are, When the woman saw Samuel, (1 Samuel 28:12; 1 Samuel 28:12), whereas one would have expected to be told how she performed the operation, what spells and charms she used, or that some little intimation would be given of what she said or did; but the profound silence of the scripture concerning it forbids our coveting to know the depths of Satan (Revelation 2:24) or to have our curiosity gratified with an account of the mysteries of iniquity. How truly had the prophet warned, how punctually was every word verified! The man of faith deserts the ground of God, and deliberately seeks a shelter in the country of the enemy. The more evident indeed that God had interposed to deliver, the greater his desire to seize and slay him whom his evil mind conjures into an enemy; and so he takes three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, when he hears of David being in the wilderness of Engedi, and goes in quest of him there. "Then said David, O Jehovah God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake. God prompts the question He only can answer. "And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? (1 Samuel 24:1-22), But a very different issue soon appears. These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. This is a reference to the Messiah, the King who will triumph over the nations who are opposed to God (see Gen. 49:8-12 ; Num. She had only to do with an evil personage called a "familiar spirit" the one that attached itself to her iniquitous life as a witch. Some believe that this was a demonic impersonation of Samuel. And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by the prophets. So he went to a woman who consulted the spirits of the dead, hoping that through her he could get directions from Samuel (7-14).Samuel spoke to Saul from the world of the dead, but he gave him neither comfort nor help. Our Lord speaks of the tongue of the disembodied spirit of Dives in order to give us an idea of his sufferings; and at the Transfiguration He presented the form of Moses in such a garb to the three disciples as might enable them to recognise him as Moses.. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men. Saul recognized Samuel and bowed before him out of respect. "They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon. Now I don't believe that I personally have ever had a dream that had any spiritual significance to it. How striking the quiet confidence of faith the sense of security from God which gave the hunted man courage to draw near his pursuer. ", Saul fell on the ground, he was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: there were no strength left in him; for he had not eaten all that day, nor that evening. However it also describes the judges in Israel who were divine beings in the sense that they served as judges under the Great Judge (Psalms 82:6; cf. Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand. so plain was it that even Saul himself has the springs of his natural affection touched, and owns how much more true David was to the king than the king to himself. Saul is obliged to return, and David was delivered. An old man coming up Although this appearance of Samuel is represented by the woman as coming up out of the earth, there is no reason to think that it did so in fact. The last lesson of needed chastening had fallen on his heart. Here is a seeming defector chasm in the story. And he said, Bring me up Samuel. 4. That is, isn't something that you should be dabbling with. It was a panic sent by God. and who is like to thee in Israel? And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself. But it was a question now that had arrived at the point where one must be thoroughly decided either for or against the Lord. "And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord. "Bring hither the ephod," says he to the priest. Saul perceived that it was Samuel The description was suitable to his person and clothing. Again the spotlight of revelation turns back to Saul from David. Nor was it a dilemma only, but indeed a horrible sin. and what did he make them? I.e. "And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? 15 )." (Trapp) 2. Saul would be in the same general area as Samuel, but not the same specific place. 'It was not so from the beginning.' ( Matt. The four rulers who shared the military command with Achish were suspicious when they saw David with six hundred Israelites among their own forces. But the wrath of earthly princes is feared by most more than the wrath of the King of kings. And so he soon proved. 1. This supposes that it was generally taken for granted that souls exist after death, and that when men die there is not an end of them: it supposes too that great knowledge was attributed to separate souls. i. The circumstances of the enemy's triumph need not he dwelt on, nor the comely act of the men of Jabesh who recovered the bodies of Saul and his sons exposed on the walls of Beth-shan, burnt them, buried their bones, and gave themselves to a fast for seven days. No one knew better that David was always indisposed to deal with Saul. "And Jehovah also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines. Before that, however, a new character of faith is found or formed in a new witness, and this too where it could have been least expected not in a man who was to pass :away, but in a woman not in Jonathan, but in Abigail, who abides and is blessed indeed. Saul was deceived. I would like to say I see no reason at all for not believing the story just as it is written. It is good not to avenge ourselves. And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. It requires, I need not say, much grace to ask a favour, especially of such a man as Nabal; but, even little known as he might be and David well knew what some men were in Israel it was no small humiliation for the anointed of Jehovah. Saul desires to speak with Samuel: Bring me up Samuel. And they ate: The dinner Saul ate that night was like the last meal of a man on death row, awaiting execution in the morning. But it is possible to contact spirit entities. Find me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her: It wasnt easy to find a medium in the land of Israel because Saul had previously put them out of the land. It is common for men to inveigh severely against those sins which they are in no temptation to, but afterwards to be themselves overcome by them. "Because you disobeyed the voice of God, God has departed from you. 2. ", And here we read of a deeply touching account of love to David in Saul's own house at this crisis. Here she could not hesitate for a moment. Saul was once more touched, and says, "Is this thy voice, my son David? I cannot doubt that this has never been absent from the earth, that all the alleged oracles of old were connected with and flowed from the power of evil spirits, that the same thing disguised under other names has wrought more particularly in dark lands, and that even now it may be at work from time to time, of course disguised so as the better to deceive even in the very centre of light. By all means, bring me up Samuel." But the unhappy king, in no way ashamed of himself, or heeding the lesson of the Lord, as soon as possible returns to the pursuit of his dutiful son-in-law and faithful subject, David. But here again we have in brief words another change. The real spirits of the departed just or unjust? King Saul has rejected and is currently rejecting Gods previously revealed will. as appears from the answer: and she said, an old man cometh up, and he is covered with a mantle; Saul was being boxed in to just a very small area. iv. The medium was also surprised because now she discovered that she had practiced her craft before the same king who drove out all the mediums and spiritists from Israel. This commentary has been through Advanced Theological Checking. Click to enable/disable _ga - Google Analytics Cookie. 1 God designed, says Bishop Wordsworth, that the spirit of Samuel should be recognised by human eyes; and how could this have been done but by means of such objects as are visible to human sense? So Achish said to David, "Therefore I . 1 Samuel 15 Commentary. "And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod." In the next chapter (1 Samuel 26:1-25) we have Saul again, still unrepentant, still bent on his bloody mission. what are we? (f) De Abstinentia, l. 2. apud Grotium in loc. Only the rankling of deadly enmity burns within, which now breaks out, not against the man whom most of all he desired to destroy, but against those that had shown him kindness, priests of Jehovah though they were. The consequence was that "Saul lifted up his voice, and wept. Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD nor execute His fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore the LORD has done this thing to you this day. Demons knew it too. Saul assured the medium that she did not need to fear him. But Achish stands firm. This one object characterizes his life henceforth. "Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And the LORD has done for Himself as He spoke by me. The text says that Saul "knew" it was Samuel, but in this case, the Bible is telling us Saul's state of mind, what was true for him . i. He now saw the host of the Philistines mustering, and his heart trembles. At the very crisis, when it seemed all over with David, a messenger comes to Saul saying, "Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land." "Thou shalt be king over Israel." "Bees in the East are not, as in England, kept in hives; they are all in a wild state. As far as arrangement was concerned, David was to fight with the Philistines against Israel! 2. Even the memorial of God's early use of him, here recalled by the lips of the Philistines, awakens not trust in Him, but the more terror of Achish. Saul came by night to En-dor, 1 Samuel 28:8. that David carries on a course of deception of the most painful and pitiable kind, especially in a servant of Jehovah once so true and simple and transparent as he? As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee." 194-95; and Archer, Encyclopedia of . How could it suffice His heart to overrule and keep David back? The LORD did not answer him: This silence demonstrates that God will not always answer everyone who seeks Him; not when a man is in a place of judgment as Saul is. New King James Version So he said to her, "What is his form?" But who knows what mischiefs those will run into that forsake God and are forsaken of him? Next we find it recorded that, when Abiathar the son of Abimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with (not "an," but the) ephod in his hand: on the death of his fellows he succeeded to the highest place. Perhaps Saul thought that time would change Gods mind, but time never changes Gods mind. As Jehovah liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, Jehovah's anointed. So the Philistines had really moved a long way against the Israelites. Samuel was on the LORDs side, so if the LORD wouldnt tell Saul what he wanted, he didnt have any reason to believe that Samuel would tell him. 1. a. All the world felt and bore witness in the day of his and their glory, after they had been fashioned in the day of trial and sorrow and reproach by the mighty action of the same grace that shone in David. In the story Jesus told in Luke 16:19-31, the blessed dead and the cursed dead were both in the same general area. This it was that occasioned the greatest possible surprise to her soul. and bowed himself.It Seems probable that at this juncture the king saw the form before him when he did obeisance. And another feature here remark. "And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment." Check to enable permanent hiding of message bar and refuse all cookies if you do not opt in. How could anything needed by David be viewed any longer as holy in the eyes of God where I)avid was rejected, the anointed of Jehovah? She expected to have a little conversation with her demon guide, and her demon spirit, and from him to get the information that Saul was seeking. The Philistines took an opportunity to make this attempt when they had David among them, whom they feared more than Saul and all his forces. the voice of the LORD: Essentially, Samuel confirmed what God already said to Saul. Introduction to 1 and 2 Samuel 3. b. Saul swore to her by the LORD: Sauls oath in the name of the LORD reminds us that spiritual jargon means nothing. Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?" And tomorrow you and your sons are gonna be here with me. This he does by the help of an Egyptian servant who had been left behind sick. The application he made to a witch, to bring him up Samuel ( v. 7-14 ). 14 And he said unto her, What form is he of? "And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand. And his servants were too officious to serve him in this evil affair; they presently recommended one to him at Endor (a city not far off) who had escaped the execution of Saul's edict. and let one of the young men come over and fetch it. When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice: The medium was probably so shocked because she was a fraud, and most of her dealings with the spirit realm were mere tricks. Now it becomes a question of David. Whatever led him so to enquire, it was of God to preserve him from the imminent snare then surrounding him. But were they discontented when they surrounded David? We have no reason to believe that Samuel said it was Saul, but she drew unhesitatingly the inference that Saul it must be. Relive an Ashes epic at Edgbaston as Australia pipped England by two wickets on the fifth and final day of the series opener. But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields: they were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. "And Saul sware to her by Jehovah, saying, As Jehovah liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing. Where was the champion of Israel? This shows us the condition in which the lost are. Saul then revealed why he called for Samuel: that you may reveal to me what I should do. It is beautifully brought out in the case of the Samaritan leper; not that strictly speaking he could be supposed to be under the law as a Jew was, but that his case made plain the supremacy of the person of the Lord ,Jesus and of the power of God that wrought by Him. If Jehovah have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before Jehovah; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of Jehovah, saying, Go, serve other gods. As David said, "There is none like that: give it me." It was proved then as against all such demands, whereas a Jew must wait till the cross proved it for him. For you are Saul! Some (g) think all this was the cunning and imposture of the woman alone, or that she was assisted with a confederate, who acted the part of Samuel; but this is not probable. He hoped God would speak to him through the Urim, but God was silent. Not so, Jonathan! Obediently he went, fought the Philistines, "brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter." [Note: See ibid., pp. Was it the power or skill of David that was in the truest sense the means of victory? The priest's answer was, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here." Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? This seems to have been a divine revelation to Saul, the last one God gave him. Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? Oh, what an end of the first and favoured king of Israel! for what have I done? and what clothes has he on? from the Lord (1 Samuel 28:16-19). ), English translations, and modern Hebrew Bibles. But this suggestion is also inadequate because it does not speak to the issue of motive. This it is that leads him into a path where his history becomes more definitely typical. heart and conscience told Israel that there was no hope in the king. How humiliating to see David fleeing "that day" for fear of Saul to Achish the king of Gath! "Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness." A very striking difference too in the character of her faith will be apparent to any one who reads the chapter with simplicity, and before the Lord. Indeed he would have been better without it. This man went up from his city yearly to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. Here are four of the most commonly suggested possibilities. Whether or not that is actually so, I don't know, but somehow God spoke through the Urim and the Thummin. ., pp. I believe that God can still speak to people through dreams, and I'm open to dreaming if God wants to speak to me in a dream, I'm open to it. Moreover the Lord will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me: [Oh, that would be a heavy thing to lay upon somebody wouldn't it?] Fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah sixty-one that declared, "He would loose the bonds, and set at liberty those that were captives." 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