9<\/strong>. spared Agag<\/em> ] Perhaps to grace his triumph and to be an evidence of his victory (Jdg 1:7<\/span>): perhaps from a feeling of sympathy with a fellow king (1Ki 20:32<\/span>).<\/p>\n and the best of the sheep<\/em>, &c.] In direct violation of the Divine command. It was to be a sacred war from which the people were to take no gain of spoil, in token that it was undertaken in the execution of a Divine vengeance and not for their own profit.<\/p>\n fatlings<\/em> ] See note on p. 246.<\/p>\n The fatlings – <\/B>The present Hebrew text cannot be so rendered. It can only mean the second best (compare the margin), i. e., sheep of the age to cut or shed the two teeth, sheep in their prime. But it is probable that the reading is corrupt, and that fat or dainty bits is the true reading.<\/P><\/p>\n Saul and the people; <\/B>the one proposed to do so, and the other consented to it, and so both were guilty. <\/P> All that was good; <\/B>which it is more than probable they reserved for their own use, rather than for sacrifice, because they knew God would not accept a sacrifice contrary to his own command. Thus they obey God only so far as they could without inconvenience to themselves; they destroyed only what was not worth keeping, nor fit for their use. <\/P> <\/p>\n And Saul and all the people spared Agag<\/strong>,…. Perhaps Saul made the motion to spare him, and the people agreed to it; it may be, out of respect to him as a king; or because of the comeliness of his person, the height of his stature, and the largeness of his body, as Josephus y notes; or to carry him in triumph in a public show, see 1Sa 15:12<\/span><\/p>\n and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings<\/strong>; or “of the second sort”, as in the margin, the second best; or rather which shed their two long teeth, as sheep at two years old did when reckoned at their full strength, and fittest for sacrifice z:<\/p>\n and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them<\/strong>; as they were commanded, but kept them for their own private use and advantage, and this not only the best and fattest of the flocks and herds, but of their household goods:<\/p>\n but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly<\/strong>: such of the cattle that were poor and lean, lame or blind, or had any defect in them, and household goods that were mere rubbish and lumber; such they entirely destroyed, killed the creatures, and burnt the goods; in doing which they thought they fulfilled the will of God.<\/p>\n y Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 6. c. 7.) sect. 2. z Bidentes, Virgil. Aeneid. l. 6. ver. 39. Vid. Servium in ib.<\/p>\n (9) And he took Agag . . . alive.<\/strong>Agag seems to have been for the sovereigns of Amalek the official title, like Pharaoh in the case of the kings of Egypt, and Abimelech among certain of the Philistine peoples. The meaning of the term Agag is unknown.<\/p>\n Utterly destroyed all the people.<\/strong>That is to say, Ir-Amalek was sacked, and the nation generally broken up; but many, no doubt, escaped into the desert, for we hear of the people again on several occasions in this book. In 1Ch. 4:43<\/span> their complete, and probably final, annihilation is recorded.<\/p>\n (9) Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen.<\/strong>It would seem that Saul carried out the awful curse to the letter (with the exception that he spared the king) in the case of the human beings and the less valuable of their beasts. But covetousness seems to have suggested the preservation of the choicest cattle, and pride probably induced the Hebrew king to save Agag alive, that he might show the people his royal captive.<\/p>\n 9<\/strong>. <\/strong> Spared Agag, and the best of the sheep <\/strong> The one for the purpose of gratifying his vainglory by leading captive so illustrious a slave; the other to gratify his covetousness. Thus he repeated the sin of Achan. Jos 7:21<\/span>. <\/p>\n Of the fatlings <\/strong> , of the second sort, <\/em> as margin correctly reads. The reference is, probably, to the age of the animals: those of the second birth, or later born, and therefore tender and particularly desirable, either for food or sacrifice.<\/p>\n 1Sa 15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all [that was] good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing [that was] vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.<\/p>\n Ver. 9. And the best of the sheep.<\/strong> ] If Saul spare Agag, the people will take liberty to spare the best of the spoil, – Regis ad exemplum, &c., <\/em> the sins of the great command imitation, and do as seldom go without attendants as their persons, – which they ought not to have done, because together with those spoils, the memory also of the nation remained, which God had decreed utterly to blot out. They should have done as they did once at Jericho. Jos 6:17 But the dust of covetousness had put out their eyes; neither was it godliness, – as they pretended, – but gain, that made them so to fly upon the spoil. 1Sa 15:19 <\/p>\n and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton (App-6) in this verse. <\/p>\n every thing that was vile = all the stock that was worthless. <\/p>\n the best: 1Sa 15:3, 1Sa 15:15, 1Sa 15:19, Jos 7:21 <\/p>\n the fatlings: or, the second sort, 2Sa 6:13 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Exo 23:2 – follow Num 24:7 – Agag Deu 2:34 – utterly destroyed Jos 11:15 – he left nothing Jdg 1:27 – the Canaanites 1Sa 15:11 – hath not performed 1Sa 15:13 – I have performed 1Sa 15:24 – I feared 1Sa 22:19 – men 1Sa 28:18 – obeyedst 2Sa 21:2 – in his zeal 1Ki 20:42 – Because Jer 48:10 – Cursed Mat 26:9 – General<\/p>\n 1Sa 15:9. Would not utterly destroy them As they had been commanded of God, but took them as a prey to themselves. Every thing that was vile, they destroyed All that was not worth the keeping. Thus they obeyed God as far as they could, without inconvenience and loss to themselves, which is a striking instance of the baseness of human nature, when governed by covetousness, or any such like grovelling affection or appetite.<\/p>\n But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all [that was] good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing [that was] vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. 9. spared Agag ] Perhaps to grace his … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Samuel 15:9”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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