1 Samuel 15:4 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 15:4

So Saul summoned the troops and numbered them at Telaim—200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah.

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ASV

And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

KJV

And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Two hundred thousand - and ten thousand - The Septuagint, in the London Polyglot, have Four Hundred thousand companies of Israel, and Thirty thousand companies of Judah. The Codex Alexandrinus has Ten thousand of each. The Complutensian Polyglot has Two Hundred thousand companies of Israel, and Ten thousand of Judah. And Josephus has Four Hundred thousand of Israel, and Thirty thousand of Judah. All the other versions are the same with the Hebrew text; and there is no difference in the MSS.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Saul gathered the people together--The alacrity with which he entered on the necessary preparations for the expedition gave a fair, but delusive promise of faithfulness in its execution.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְשַׁמַּ֤ע	vay.sha.Ma'	and he summoned	H8085 →
שָׁאוּל֙	sha.'Ul	Saul	H7586 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הָעָ֔ם	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
וַֽיִּפְקְדֵם֙	vai.yif.ke.Dem	and he mustered them	H6485 →
בַּטְּלָאִ֔ים	ba.te.la.'Im	at <the> Telaim	H2923 →
מָאתַ֥יִם	ma.Ta.yim	two hundred	H3967 →
אֶ֖לֶף	'E.lef	thousand	H505 →
רַגְלִ֑י	rag.Li	foot soldier[s]	H7273 →
וַעֲשֶׂ֥רֶת	va.'a.Se.ret	and ten	H6235 →
אֲלָפִ֖ים	'a.la.Fim	thousand<s>	H505 →
אֶת־	'et-	with	H854 →
אִ֥ישׁ	'ish	<the> man of	H376 →
יְהוּדָֽה׃	ye.hu.Dah	Judah	H3063 →

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Through
1 Samuel 13:15
Then Samuel set out from Gilgal and went up to Gibeah in Benjamin. And Saul numbered the troops who were with him, about six hundred men.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 14:2
  Meanwhile, Saul was staying under the pomegranate tree in Migron on the outskirts of Gibeah. And the troops who were with him numbered about six hundred men,
- 1 Samuel 13:2
  He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And…
- 1 Samuel 13:6–7
  Seeing that they were in danger because their troops were hard-pressed, the men of Israel hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in cellars and cisterns.
Through
Joshua 15:24
Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
leads to
- 1 Samuel 23:14
  And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.
- 1 Samuel 23:24
  So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon,
- 1 Samuel 23:19
  Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?
Through
1 Samuel 11:8
And when Saul numbered them at Bezek, there were 300,000 Israelites and 30,000 men of Judah.
leads to
- Judges 1:4–5
  When Judah attacked, the LORD delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek.
- 2 Samuel 24:9
  And Joab reported to the king the total number of the troops. In Israel there were 800,000 men of valor who drew the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.

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