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1 Samuel 10:27
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
children: 1 Samuel 2:12, 1 Samuel 11:12, Deuteronomy 13:13, 2 Samuel 20:1, 2 Chronicles 13:7, Acts 7:35, Acts 7:51, Acts 7:52
brought him: 2 Samuel 8:2, 1 Kings 4:21, 1 Kings 10:25, 2 Chronicles 17:5, Psalms 72:10, Matthew 2:11
he held his peace: or, he was as though he had been deaf, Psalms 38:13, Isaiah 36:21, Matthew 27:12-14
Reciprocal: Genesis 34:5 - now his Genesis 37:8 - reign over us Judges 3:15 - sent a present Judges 11:5 - to fetch Judges 19:22 - sons of Belial 1 Samuel 1:16 - a daughter 1 Samuel 9:21 - my family 1 Samuel 16:20 - an ass laden 1 Chronicles 18:2 - brought gifts 2 Chronicles 9:24 - every man Job 42:11 - every man Proverbs 11:12 - a man 2 Peter 2:10 - despise
Cross-References
These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.
All these people were the sons of Ham, and all these families had their own languages, their own lands, and their own nations.
These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.
These [are] the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, [and] in their nations.
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.
These are the descendants of Ham according to their constituent groups, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.
These weren the sones of Cham, in her kynredis, and langagis, and generaciouns, and londis, and folkis.
These [are] sons of Ham, by their families, by their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.
These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
But the children of Belial said,.... Wicked, dissolute, lawless persons; men without a yoke, as the word signifies, who did not care to be under the yoke of government, at least not under the yoke of Saul; and these might be men of wealth, and of larger tribes, and better families than Saul was of, and therefore envied him, and thought themselves better for government than he was; and in a jeering scornful manner said,
how shall this man save us? whose family is so mean, and whose tribe is so small, that they can give but little assistance to deliver us out of the hands of our enemies, the Philistines and Ammonites; intimating, that a king ought to have been of a rich family, and a large tribe, and a prince in it, whose interest and influence were great, not only in his own tribe, but in others, which would enable him to engage in war with an enemy, and protect the people; but what, as if they should say, can be expected from "this man?", this mean contemptible man, of no birth nor fortune, brought up in an obscure manner, and altogether inexpert in things civil and military?
and they despised him; on account of the above things, not only in their hearts, but spared not to speak out, and use opprobrious language, and with which their actions and conduct agreed:
and brought him no presents; as others did, and as it was usual when a king came to the throne; nor were any visits made unto him, in token of their subjection to him, and complacency in him, and by way of congratulation of him, see 1 Kings 4:21 the Targum is, they did not salute him, or ask of his welfare:
but he held his peace, or "was as one that is deaf and dumb" o; took no notice of what they said, as if he was deaf and heard it not, and was as silent as if he had been a dumb man, which showed his wisdom and prudence; for had he taken notice of them, he must have punished them, and he judged it more advisable to use lenity and mildness, and not begin his reign with contention and bloodshed.
o ויהי כמחריש "et fuit veluti surdus", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus; "fuit quasi obmutescens", Drusius; "veluti tacens [aut] silens", so some in Vatablus; so the Targum.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Presents - The מנחה mı̂nchāh was the token of homage and acknowledgment from the subject to the sovereign, and from the tributary nation to their suzerain. (See 2 Samuel 8:2, 2 Samuel 8:6; Jdg 3:17-18; 1 Kings 4:21; 2 Kings 17:4, etc.; Psalms 72:10; Isaiah 16:1.) Saul dissembled his resentment, and waited for the favorable tide which soon came with the invasion of Nahash.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Samuel 10:27. Brought him no presents — They gave him no proofs that they acknowledged either the Divine appointment or his authority. The Arab chiefs are, to this day, when on a march or excursion of any kind, supplied with every necessary by the free-will offerings or presents of the people in the villages or places where they encamp. Saul was now a public character, and had a right to support from the public. These sons of Belial refused to bear their part; they brought him no presents. He marked it, but at present held his peace; he was as if he were deaf: so says the text. He was prudent, and did not immediately assume all the consequence to which his office entitled him. It is probable, however, that tribute is meant by the word present. The people in general finding they had now a king, took it for granted that they must pay tribute or taxes to him. This was a part of the manner of the king which Samuel had shown them; the great majority had done so, but certain refractory people refused to pay any thing, on the pretence that such a person as Saul could not be a deliverer of Israel. How, say they, shall this man save us?
