1 Samuel 16:1 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 16:1

Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a king for Myself.”

BSB

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ASV

And Jehovah said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go: I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.

KJV

And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth–lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

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Commentary

4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Fill thine horn with oil - Horns appear to have been the ancient drinking vessels of all nations; and we may suppose that most persons who had to travel much, always carried one with them, for the purpose of taking up water from the fountains to quench their thirst. Such a horn had Samuel; and on this occasion he was commanded to fill it with oil, for the purpose of consecrating a king over Israel from among the sons of Jesse.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

I have provided - This phrase is very emphatical, and implies the difference between this and the former king. Saul was a king of the people's providing, he was the product of their sinful desires: but this is a king of my own providing, to fulfil all my will, and to serve my glory.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He sends him to Bethlehem, to anoint one of the sons of Jesse, a person probably not unknown to Samuel. Saul was anointed with a glass vial of oil, scanty and brittle, David with a horn of oil, which was more plentiful and durable; hence we read of a horn of salvation in the house of his servant David, Luke i.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Saul was the people's choice, the fruit of their wayward and sinful desires for their own honor and aggrandizement. The next was to be a king who would consult the divine glory, and selected from that tribe to which the pre-eminence had been early promised (Ge 49:10).

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Original language & word study

29 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
יְהוָ֜ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
שְׁמוּאֵ֗ל	she.mu.'El	Samuel	H8050 →
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
מָתַי֙	ma.Tai	when?	H4970 →
אַתָּה֙	'a.Tah	[are] you	H859 →
מִתְאַבֵּ֣ל	mit.'a.Bel	mourning	H56 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
שָׁא֔וּל	sha.'Ul	Saul	H7586 →
וַאֲנִ֣י	va.'a.Ni	and I	H589 →
מְאַסְתִּ֔יו	me.'as.Tiv	I have rejected him	H3988 →
מִמְּלֹ֖ךְ	mi.me.Lokh	from reigning	H4427 →
עַל־	'al-	over	H5921 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
מַלֵּ֨א	ma.Le'	fill	H4390 →
קַרְנְךָ֜	kar.ne.Cha	horn your	H7161 →
שֶׁ֗מֶן	She.men	oil	H8081 →
וְלֵ֤ךְ	ve.Lekh	and go	H1980 →
אֶֽשְׁלָחֲךָ֙	'esh.la.cha.Kha	I will send you	H7971 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
יִשַׁ֣י	yi.Shai	Jesse	H3448 →
בֵּֽית־	beit-	[the] Beth-	H1022 →
הַלַּחְמִ֔י	ha.lach.Mi	<the> -lehemite	H1022 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
רָאִ֧יתִי	ra.'I.ti	I have seen	H7200 →
בְּבָנָ֛יו	be.va.Nav	among sons his	H1121 →
לִ֖י	li	for <the> myself
מֶֽלֶךְ׃	Me.lekh	a king	H4428 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”
leads to
- Jeremiah 28:16
  Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. You will die this year because you have preached rebellion against the LORD.’”
- 1 Samuel 13:14
  But now your kingdom will not endure; the LORD has sought a man after His own heart and appointed him ruler over His people, because you have not kept the command of the LORD.”
- Leviticus 20:6
  Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.
- Galatians 5:20
  idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,
- Deuteronomy 18:10–11
  Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
Through
1 Samuel 15:35
And to the day of his death, Samuel never again visited Saul. Samuel mourned for Saul, and the LORD regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 19:24
  Then Saul stripped off his robes and also prophesied before Samuel. And he collapsed and lay naked all that day and night. That is why it is said, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
- 1 Samuel 15:11
  “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all…
Through
2 Kings 9:1
Now Elisha the prophet summoned one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak under your belt, take this flask of oil, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 10:1
  Then Samuel took a flask of oil, poured it on Saul’s head, kissed him, and said, “Has not the LORD anointed you ruler over His inheritance?