1 Samuel 10:15
in 1 Samuel 10“Tell me,” Saul’s uncle asked, “what did Samuel say to you?”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And Saul’s uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.
KJV
And Saul’s uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.
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This verse in 1 Samuel 10
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
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on 1 Samuel 10:14-16
The silence is his own choice, since the text says plainly that “Saul did not tell his uncle what Samuel had said about the kingship”. Gill read the reticence as modesty proper to a man not yet installed before the people, in contrast with the later Saul.
This site's exposition
Tell me
The uncle presses for Samuel's words. John Gill suggests the uncle saw a change, and suspected news of the kingdom, since all Israel was waiting for Samuel to name a king.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And Saul's uncle said, &c. l On hearing he had been with Samuel, and perceiving so great an alteration in Saul, perhaps he began to suspect something about the kingdom; it being what everyone was talking of, and expecting every day to hear from Samuel who should be king, according to the Lord's appointment: tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you; the earnestness with which he put this question seems to confirm the above conjecture.
Many a one would have been so elated with this surprising elevation as to proclaim it upon the house-top. But Saul, though he might please himself with it in his own breast, did not pride himself in it among his neighbours. The heirs of the kingdom of glory are well enough pleased that the world knows them not, 1 John iii.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
But about the matter of the kingship he did not tell him. He possessed a discretionary nature. 7 See Maseches Megillah 13b.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 7 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֹּ֖אמֶר | vaiyomer | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| דּ֣וֹד | dod | [the] uncle of | H1730 → | 61 times |
| שָׁא֑וּל | shaul | Saul | H7586 → | 402 times |
| הַגִּֽידָה־ | hagidah- | tell ! | H5046 → | 370 times |
| נָּ֣א | na' | please | H4994 → | 404 times |
| לִ֔י | li | to <the> me | ||
| מָֽה־ | mah- | what? | H4100 → | 752 times |
| אָמַ֥ר | ʾamar | did he say | H559 → | 5305 times |
| לָכֶ֖ם | lakhem | to <the> you | ||
| שְׁמוּאֵֽל׃ | shemuel | Samuel | H8050 → | 141 times |
וַיֹּ֖אמֶרand he said
vaiyomerH559 →5305 times
דּ֣וֹד[the] uncle of
dodH1730 →61 times
שָׁא֑וּלSaul
shaulH7586 →402 times
הַגִּֽידָה־tell !
hagidah-H5046 →370 times
נָּ֣אplease
na'H4994 →404 times
לִ֔יto <the> me
li
מָֽה־what?
mah-H4100 →752 times
אָמַ֥רdid he say
ʾamarH559 →5305 times
לָכֶ֖םto <the> you
lakhem
שְׁמוּאֵֽל׃Samuel
shemuelH8050 →141 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
About 1 Samuel
Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.