They went up to the city. As they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place.
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They went up to the city. As they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place.
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And they went up into the city: and when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place.
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And they went up to the city; and as they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 9:14 And they went up into the city:…
1Sa 9:14 And they went up into the city: [and] when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place.
Ver. 14. Samuel came out against them.] Not without divine direction. {1Sa 9:15} When God will have a thing done, there shall be a sweet subordination of causes, and all things shall cooperate.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Samuel came out; out of his own house, just…
Samuel came out; out of his own house, just as they passed by.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And they went up into the city,.... Saul and…
And they went up into the city,.... Saul and his servant went up the hill to the city of Ramah: and
when they were come into the city; were within it, within the walls of it:
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behold, Samuel came out against them; came out of a door of his house upon them, just as they came up: or "to meet them" (i); his way to the high place lay where they were coming; unless it can be thought he went out purposely to meet them, having, as in the following verse, an intimation, that about that time one from the tribe of Benjamin, who should be king, would come to him, and so made this his way, knowing that one coming from that tribe must come that way; but it seems most likely that this was his readiest way:
for to go up to the high place; or place of sitting down, or feasting, as the Targum; see Gill on Sa1 9:12.
(i) "in occursum eorum", Pagninus, Montanus; "eis obviam", V. L. Tigurine version.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 14. Come out against them] Met them.
Verse 14. Come out against them] Met them.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Sa 9:14-15. Behold, Samuel came out against them —…
1Sa 9:14-15. Behold, Samuel came out against them — Met them directly in his way to the sacrifice. For so God, in his providence, had disposed things, as it follows in the next words. The Lord had told Samuel in his ear — That is, secretly, perhaps by a small, still voice. In the Hebrew it is, He revealed, or uncovered the ear of Samuel.
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Midst. That is, simply in the city, or entering…
Midst. That is, simply in the city, or entering the gate, where Samuel met them, ver. 18.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Samuel came out against them, for to go up…
Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place--Such were the simple manners of the times that this prophet, the chief man in Israel, was seen going to preside at a high festival undistinguished either by his dress or equipage from any ordinary citizen.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 14. and when they were come into the city]…
14. and when they were come into the city] Rather, as they were coming into the midst of the city, behold Samuel was coming out to meet them. In the E. V. this verse apparently disagrees with 1Sa_9:18. The correct translation makes all clear. Saul and his servant ascend the hill. As they enter the city they meet Samuel “in the gate” (1Sa_9:18).
The Sept. reads “gate” here, and “city” in 1Sa_9:18, but the change is unnecessary.
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The high place was either on the top of the hill on the slope of which the city stood, or on the adjacent hill from which the city had its name Ramathaim (“the two heights”). See note on 1Sa_1:1.
‘Against’ here = ‘opposite to,’ as in Gen_15:10. So Tyndale in Gen_32:1 has “Jacob saw the angels of God come against him.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (14) Behold, Samuel came out against them.—“Saul comes before…
(14) Behold, Samuel came out against them.—“Saul comes before Samuel, bashfully pursuing his humble quest, in apparent unconsciousness of the power slumbering within him of aspiring and attaining to the highest place; the great seer receives him in a way quite different from all that he could have hoped or feared. At the moment of their meeting the seer has come forth from his house on the way to the solitary sacred heights of Ramah, the city of his residence, where he sacrifices on the altar to Jahveh, or is wont to partake of a sacred sacrificial repast with some of his closest friends. He at once desires to take Saul also with him, telling him beforehand how unimportant was the immediate object of his inquiries, and that the matter was already settled; but that for him and his whole house was reserved a very different and far better destiny in Israel. And though Saul, in his unassuming simplicity, would fain waive the honour which is obscurely hinted (so little does he yet know his better self), the holy man, more discerning, takes him with him to the sacrificial meal, which is already prepared; nay, assigns him the place of honour among the thirty guests before invited, while he is served with a portion of the sacrificial meat, put by, as it were, specially for him: for in like manner a portion other and higher than that of ordinary men had been long reserved for him by heaven.”—Ewald.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain When they were come into. More correctly, "As they…
When they were come into. More correctly, "As they were going into the city." This agrees with what is said in ver. 18, that Saul and Samuel met in the gateway. As Ramah occupied two hills, the Bamah would be on the summit of one, while the city probably nestled between them.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 to go up to the high place
to go up to the high place
This is a place that the people had designated as holy to make sacrifices and offerings to Yahweh. The writer writes as though it were outside the wall that was around the city.
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high place
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