1 Samuel 9:16

Lutherbibel

Morgen um diese Zeit will ich einen Mann zu dir senden aus dem Lande Benjamin; den sollst du zum Fürsten salben über mein Volk Israel, daß er mein Volk erlöse von der Philister Hand. Denn ich habe mein Volk angesehen, und sein Geschrei ist vor mich gekommen.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Morgen um diese Zeit will ich einen Mann aus dem Lande Benjamin zu dir senden, den sollst du zum Fürsten über mein Volk Israel salben, daß er mein Volk von der Philister Hand erlöse; denn ich habe mein Volk angesehen, dieweil sein Geschrei vor mich gekommen ist.

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Morgen um diese Zeit werde ich einen Mann aus dem Lande Benjamin zu dir senden, und du sollst ihn zum F�rsten salben �ber mein Volk Israel; und er wird mein Volk aus der Hand der Philister retten; denn ich habe mein Volk angesehen, denn sein Geschrei ist zu mir gekommen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou shalt: 1 Samuel 10:1, 1 Samuel 15:1, 1 Samuel 16:3, 1 Kings 19:15, 1 Kings 19:16, 2 Kings 9:3-6

looked upon: Exodus 2:23-25, Exodus 3:7-9, Psalms 25:18, Psalms 106:44

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 26:7 - looked 1 Samuel 5:12 - the cry 1 Samuel 13:14 - captain over 1 Samuel 16:1 - horn with oil 1 Samuel 22:2 - a captain 2 Samuel 5:2 - a captain 2 Samuel 7:8 - ruler 2 Samuel 21:6 - whom the Lord did choose 2 Kings 20:5 - the captain Psalms 102:1 - let my Jeremiah 14:2 - the cry Jeremiah 32:8 - Then I

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Tomorrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin,.... Who without any thought or design of his own, but merely directed by the providence of God, should come to him, not expecting a kingdom; at most only to hear of his father's asses, and which way he should take to find them; missing the finding of which would and did bring him thither:

and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel; the leader, ruler, and governor of them; to which high office he was to be appointed by pouring oil upon him, and was the first king on whom this ceremony was performed, and from whence he was called the Lord's anointed:

that he may save my people out of the hands of the Philistines; who, since Samuel was grown old, made encroachments upon them, built garrisons on their borders, and made, it is very probable, incursions upon them, and ravages and oppressions of them:

for I have looked upon my people; with an eye of pity and compassion:

because their cry is come unto me; by reason of the oppressions of the Philistines, and the war they were threatened with by the Ammonites; though Abarbinel thinks this refers to their importunate cry, supplication, and request to have a king set over them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines, etc. - These words are not very easily reconcileable with 1 Samuel 7:13. It is possible that the aggressive movements of the Philistines, after the long cessation indicated by 1 Samuel 7:13, coupled with Samuel’s old age and consequent inability to lead them to victory as before, were among the chief causes which led to the cry for a king. If this were so the Philistine oppression glanced at in this verse might in a general survey be rather connected with Saul’s times than with Samuel’s.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 9:16. Thou shalt anoint him to be captain — Not to be king, but to be נגיד nagid or captain of the Lord's host. But in ancient times no king was esteemed who was not an able warrior. Plutarch informs us that Alexander the Great esteemed the following verse the most correct, as to its sentiment, of any in the whole Iliad of Homer: -

Ουτος γ' Ατρειδης ευρυκρειων Αγαμεμνων,

Αμφοτερον βασιλευς τ' αγαθος, κρατερος τ' αιχμητης.

"The king of kings, Atrides, you survey;

Great in the war, and great in acts of sway."

POPE.