1 Samuel 9:26

Contextual Overview

¹⁸Saul approached Samuel in the city gate and asked, “Would you please tell me where the seer’s house is?” ¹⁸ Then Sha'ul drew near to Shemu'el in the gate, and said, Tell me, Please, where the seer's house is. ¹⁸ Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is. ¹⁸ Then Saul approached Samuel in the middle of the gate and said, "Please tell me, where is the house of the seer?" ¹⁸ Then Saul approached Samuel in the gate and said, "Tell me where is the house of the seer?" ¹⁸ Saul approached Samuel at the gate and said, "Please tell me where the seer's house is." ¹⁸ As Saul approached Samuel in the middle of the gate, he said, "Please tell me where the seer's house is." ¹⁸Then Saul approached Samuel in the [city] gate and said, "Please tell me where the seer's house is." ¹⁸ Then Saul approached Samuel at the gateway and said, "Please tell me where the seer's house is." ¹⁸ Then went Saul to Samuel in the middes of the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the Seers house is.

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

Cross-References

Genesis 9:1
God blessed Noach and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the eretz.

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Have many children; grow in number and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sonnes, and said to them, Bring foorth fruite, and multiplie, and replenish the earth.

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:1
God said to Noah and his sons: I am giving you my blessing. Have a lot of children and grandchildren, so people will live everywhere on this earth.

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.