1 KaSamuweli 13:12

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

12 ndathi, Kaloku amaFilisti aya kuda ehle eze kum eGiligali, ndingambongozanga uYehova; ndazinyanzela, ndalinyusa idini elinyukayo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

said I: 1 Kings 12:26, 1 Kings 12:27

made supplication unto: Heb. intreated the face of, etc

I forced: 1 Samuel 21:7, Psalms 66:3, Amos 8:5, 2 Corinthians 9:7

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 13:9 - he offered 1 Kings 12:33 - he offered Proverbs 21:27 - sacrifice Ecclesiastes 5:1 - give Zechariah 7:2 - pray before the Lord

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore said I..... That is, within himself:

the Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal; on a sudden, unprepared for them, especially in a religious way:

and I have not made supplication to the Lord; for his direction and assistance, and for success in the war; which it seems went along with sacrifices, or was implied in them:

I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering; it was reluctant to him, it was against his will as well as the command of Samuel, to offer before he came, he suggests; but such were the circumstances he was in, that he was obliged to it; these are the reasons or excuses he made, and some of them have a specious appearance in them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 13:12. I forced myself — It was with great reluctance that I did what I did. In all this Saul was sincere, but ha was rash, and regardless of the precept of the Lord, which precept or command he most evidently had received, 1 Samuel 13:13. And one part of this precept was, that the Lord should tell him what he should do. Without this information, in an affair under the immediate cognizance of God, he should have taken no step.