1 Samuel 9:26

Lutherbibel

Und sie standen früh auf; und da die Morgenröte aufging, rief Samuel dem Saul auf dem Dach und sprach: Auf! daß ich dich gehen lasse. Und Saul machte sich auf, und die beiden gingen miteinander hinaus, er und Samuel.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und sie standen am Morgen früh auf. Und als die Morgenröte aufging, rief Samuel dem Saul auf dem Dach und sprach: Steh auf! Ich will dich begleiten. Da machte sich Saul auf, und die beiden gingen miteinander hinaus, er und Samuel.

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und sie standen fr�h auf; und es geschah, als die Morgenr�te aufging, da rief Samuel dem Saul auf dem Dache zu und sprach: Stehe auf, da� ich dich geleite! Und Saul stand auf, und sie gingen beide, er und Samuel, auf die Stra�e hinaus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Samuel: Saul had no doubt slept there all night, as is usual in the East; and now, being the break of day, "Samuel called to Saul on the top of the house:" there was no calling him to the top of the house a second time; he was sleeping there, and Samuel called him up.

Up: Genesis 19:14, Genesis 44:4, Joshua 7:13, Judges 19:28

Reciprocal: Judges 4:14 - Up 1 Samuel 1:19 - they rose 1 Kings 11:21 - Let me depart

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they arose early,.... Neither of them being able to sleep, as Abarbinel supposes; not Samuel for thinking what he was to do the next morning, anoint Saul king over Israel; nor Saul for what Samuel had hinted to him about the desire of all Israel being upon him, and for the honour done him at the feast, and because of the conversation they had together afterwards:

and it came to pass about the spring of the day; or the "ascents of the morning" x, when day was about to break, before the sun was up:

that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house; where they had conversed together the evening before:

saying, up, that I may send thee away; meaning not rise from his bed, for he was risen; but that he would prepare to set out on his journey, that Samuel might take his leave of him for the present, when he had accompanied him some part of his way, as he intended; and he was the more urgent upon him, because there was something to be done before people were stirring:

and Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad; out of Samuel's house, without doors, into the street.

x כעלות השחר "circa ascendere auroram", Montanus; "quum ascenderet aurora", Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To the top of the house - “On the top.” The bed on which Saul slept was on the top of the house. It is very common in the East to provide extra sleeping accommodation by placing a tent or awning on the house-top.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 9:26. Called Saul to the top of the house — Saul had no doubt slept there all night; and now, it being the break of day, "Samuel called to Saul on the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away." There was no calling him to the house-top a second time he was sleeping there, and Samuel called him up.