1 Samuel 25:1

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

Sebermula, maka matilah Semuel, lalu berhimpunlah segenap orang Israel meratapkan dia dan dikuburkannya dalam rumahnya di Rama. Maka berangkatlah Daud, lalu turun ke padang Paran.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dan matilah Samuel; seluruh orang Israel berkumpul meratapi dia dan menguburkan dia di rumahnya di Rama. Dan Daud berkemas, lalu pergi ke padang gurun Paran.

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Dan matilah Samuel; seluruh orang Israel berkumpul meratapi dia dan menguburkan dia di rumahnya di Rama. Dan Daud berkemas, lalu pergi ke padang gurun Paran.

Bible Verse Review
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Samuel: 1 Samuel 28:3

lamented: Genesis 50:11, Numbers 20:29, Deuteronomy 34:8, Acts 8:2

in his house: 1 Samuel 7:17, 1 Kings 2:34, 2 Chronicles 33:20, Isaiah 14:18

the wilderness: Genesis 14:6, Genesis 21:21, Numbers 10:12, Numbers 12:16, Numbers 13:3, Numbers 13:26, Psalms 120:5

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 1:1 - Paran Judges 4:5 - between 1 Samuel 7:15 - judged 2 Chronicles 32:33 - did him Habakkuk 3:3 - Paran

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Samuel died,.... In the interval, when Saul and David were parted, and before they saw each other again; according to the Jewish chronology g, Samuel died four months before Saul; but other Jewish writers say h he died seven months before; Abarbinel thinks it was a year or two before; which is most likely and indeed certain, since David was in the country of the Philistines after this a full year and four months, if the true sense of the phrase is expressed in 1 Samuel 27:7; and Saul was not then dead; and so another Jewish chronologer i says, that Saul died two years after Samuel, to which agrees Clemens of Alexandria k; and according to the Jews l, he died the twentieth of Ijar, for which a fast was kept on that day:

and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him; his death being a public loss, not only to the college of the prophets, over which he presided, but to the whole nation; and they had reason to lament his death, when they called to mind, the many good offices he had done them from his youth upwards; and when the government was in his hands, which was administered in the most prudent and faithful manner; and after that they had his wise counsel and advice, his good wishes and prayers for them; and the rather they had reason to lament him, since Saul their king proved so bad as he did, and at this time a difference was subsisting between David and him:

and buried him in his house at Ramah; where he lived and died; not that he was buried in his house, properly so called, or within the walls of that building wherein he dwelt; though the Greeks m and Romans n used to bury in their own dwelling houses; hence sprung the idolatrous worship of the Lares, or household gods; but not the Hebrews, which their laws about uncleanness by graves would not admit of, see

Numbers 19:15; but the meaning is, that they buried him in the place where his house was, as Ben Gersom interprets it, at Ramah, in some field or garden belonging to it. The author of the Cippi Hebraici says o, that here his father Elkanah, and his mother Hannah, and her two sons, were buried in a vault shut up, with, monuments over it; and here, some say p, Samuel's bones remained, until removed by Arcadius the emperor into Thrace; Benjamin of Tudela reports q, that when the Christians took Ramlah, which is Ramah, from the Mahometans, they found the grave of Samuel at Ramah by a synagogue of the Jews, and they took him out of the grave, and carried him to Shiloh, and there built a large temple, which is called the Samuel of Shiloh to this day:

and David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran; on hearing of the death of Samuel, there to indulge his mourning for him; or rather that he might be in greater safety from Saul, being further off, this wilderness lying on the south of the tribe of Judah, and inhabited by Arabs, and these called Kedarenes; and now it was that he dwelt in the tents of Kedar, Psalms 120:5.

g Seder Olam Rabba, c. 13. p. 37. h In Kimchi & Abarbinel in loc. i Juchasin, fol. 11. 1. k Stromat. l. 1. p. 325. l Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 580. sect. 2. m Plato in Mino‰. n Servius in Virgil. Aeneid. l. 6. p. mihi, (?) 1011. o P. 30. p Heldman apud Hottinger in ib. q Itinerar. p. 52.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In his house at Ramah - Probably in the court or garden attached to his dwelling-house. (Compare 2 Chronicles 33:20; 2 Kings 21:18; John 19:41.)

The wilderness of Paran - The Septuagint has the far more probable reading “Maon.” The wilderness of Paran lay far off to the south, on the borders of the wilderness of Sinai Num 10:12; 1 Kings 11:18, whereas the following verse 1 Samuel 25:2 shows that the scene is laid in the immediate neighborhood of Maon. If, however, Paran be the true reading, we must suppose that in a wide sense the wilderness of Paran extended all the way to the wilderness of Beersheba, and eastward to the mountains of Judah (marginal references).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXV

The death of Samuel, 1.

The history of Nabal, and his churlishness towards David and

his men, 2-12.

David, determining to punish him, is appeased by Abigail,

Nabal's wife, 13-35.

Abigail returns, and tells Nabal of the danger that he has

escaped: who on hearing it is thunderstruck, and dies in ten

days, 36-38

David, hearing of this, sends and takes Abigail to wife, 39-42.

He marries also Ahinoam of Jezreel, Saul having given Michal,

David's wife, to Phalti, the son of Laish, 43, 44.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXV

Verse 1 Samuel 25:1. And Samuel died — Samuel lived, as is supposed, about ninety-eight years; was in the government of Israel before Saul from sixteen to twenty years; and ceased to live, according to the Jews, about four months before the death of Saul; but according to Calmet and others, two years. But all this is very uncertain; how long he died before Saul, cannot be ascertained. For some account of his character, see the end of the chapter. 1 Samuel 25:44.

Buried him in his house — Probably this means, not his dwelling-house, but the house or tomb he had made for his sepulture; and thus the Syriac and Arabic seem to have understood it.

David - went down to the wilderness of Paran. — This was either on the confines of Judea, or in Arabia Petraea, between the mountains of Judah and Mount Sinai; it is evident from the history that it was not far from Carmel, on the south confines of Judah.