1 Samuel 10:24

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Og Samuel sa til alt folket: Her ser I ham som Herren har utvalgt! Det er ingen som han blandt alt folket. Da jublet alt folket og ropte: Kongen leve!

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See ye him: Deuteronomy 17:15, 2 Samuel 21:6

God save the king: Heb. Let the king live, 1 Kings 1:25, 1 Kings 1:21, 1 Kings 1:39, 2 Kings 11:12, Matthew 21:9

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 11:14 - renew 1 Samuel 12:1 - have made 1 Samuel 12:13 - behold 1 Samuel 16:7 - Look not 2 Samuel 16:16 - God save the king 1 Kings 12:20 - and made him 2 Kings 10:3 - Look even 2 Chronicles 6:5 - neither chose 2 Chronicles 23:11 - God save the king Psalms 47:1 - shout Daniel 2:4 - O king

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Samuel said to all the people, see ye him whom the Lord hath chosen,.... For the choice being made by lot, the disposal of which is of the Lord, it is properly attributed to him, and the people could not object to it, but must allow it was the Lord's doing. Eupolemus k, an Heathen writer, says, that Saul was made king by Samuel by the counsel or will of God; and Samuel appeals to their eyes for the goodness of the choice, a better could not have been made:

that there is none like him among the people? so graceful, so stately, so prince like and majestic; they wanted to have a king like such the nations had; and Saul was such an one, had all the outward appearance of grandeur that could be wished for, and which in other nations recommended persons to the imperial dignity:

and all the people shouted; made a general ado:

and said, God save the king; or "let the king live" l; they owned and saluted him as their king, and prayed he might live long to reign over them; the Targum is, "let the king prosper"; let his reign be prosperous and glorious, and let him enjoy all health and happiness, peace and prosperity.

k Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 30. p. 447. l יחי המלך "vivat rex", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 10:24. God save the king. — יחי המלך There is no such word here; no, nor in the whole Bible; nor is it countenanced by any of the versions. The words which we thus translate here and elsewhere are simply yechi hammelech, "May the king live; " and so all the versions, the Targum excepted, which says, May the king prosper! The French Vive le roi! is a proper version of the Hebrew.