1 Samuel 10:23 KJV — MannaFest

1 Samuel 10:23

And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

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ASV

And they ran and fetched him thence; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

WEB

So they ran and brought Saul, and when he stood among the people, he was a head taller than any of the others.

YLT

And they run and bring him thence, and he stationed himself in the midst of the people, and he is higher than any of the people from his shoulder and upward.

DBT

And they ran and fetched him thence; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

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1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
1 Samuel 9:2
And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
1 Kings 1:6
And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.
1 Samuel 17:4
And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
Judges 14:11
And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Honour, like the shadow, follows those that flee from it, but flees from those that pursue it. Samuel presents him to the people, and they accept him. He needed not to mount the bench, or scaffold, to be seen; when he stood upon even ground with the rest he was seen above them all, for he was taller than any of them by head and shoulders,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

As it was of the utmost importance that the appointment should be under the divine direction and control, the determination was made by the miraculous lot, tribes, families, and individuals being successively passed until Saul was found.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

15 , Prayer shall be made for him continually. Samuel had told them they would soon be weary of their king, but, in the mind they are now in, they will never be so: Let the king live. Samuel settles the original contract between them, and leaves it upon record,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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