1 Samuel 16:15

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him. ¹⁴ Now the Spirit of the Lord had left Saul, and the Lord sent a tormenting spirit that filled him with depression and fear. ¹⁴ Now the spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him. ¹⁴ But the Lord 's Spirit had left Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him. ¹⁴ Now the Spirit of the Lord had turned away from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented him. ¹⁴ But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him. ¹⁴ Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him. ¹⁴Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented and terrified him. ¹⁴ Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him. ¹⁴ And so the Spirit of the Lord yede awei fro Saul, and a wickid spirit of the Lord trauelide Saul.

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Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 16:1 - seeing 1 Samuel 18:10 - the evil spirit

Cross-References

Genesis 16:9
The angel of the Lord said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her."

Genesis 16:9
And the angel of Yahweh said to her, Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.

Genesis 16:9
The angel of the Lord said to her, "Go home to your mistress and obey her."

Genesis 16:9
Then the Lord 's angel said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.

Genesis 16:9
And the angel of the LORD said to her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

Genesis 16:9
The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands."

Genesis 16:9
The Angel of the LORD said to her, "Go back to your mistress, and submit humbly to her authority."

Genesis 16:9
And the aungel of the Lord seide to hir, Turne thou ayen to thi ladi, and be thou mekid vndur hir hondis.

Genesis 16:9
And the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, `Turn back unto thy mistress, and humble thyself under her hands;'

Genesis 16:9
So the Angel of the LORD told her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her authority."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Saul's servants said unto him,.... His courtiers, who observing him to act in a frantic manner, to be dull and melancholy, timorous, and irresolute, unsteady, divided, and distressed; or his physicians, who were called in to assist him, and remove his disorder from him:

behold, now an evil spirit from God troubleth thee: the disorder was not from any natural cause, or any bodily disease, and therefore out of the reach of physicians to do any service, but was from an evil spirit suffered of God to harass and disturb him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “evil” or “melancholy” spirit here spoken of was “the Spirit of God,” or “of Jehovah,” as being God’s messenger and minister, sent by Him to execute His righteous purpose upon Saul (see 1 Kings 22:19-22 note).