1 Samuel 16:2 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 16:2

“How can I go?” Samuel asked. “Saul will hear of it and kill me!” The LORD answered, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And Jehovah said, Take a heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to Jehovah.

KJV

And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.

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Commentary

3 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 6, Chapter 3 (604)

5. What is shown by these words, except that the cunning and cruelty of tyrants must sometimes be eluded by pious deception? For by the Lord's command a calf is taken from the herd, a sacrifice is simulated, and the royal anointing is reached, because when tyrants desire to do harm, certain things which they may believe must be set before them, so that they find no opening to do harm. Thus tyrants must be eluded in such a way that the guilt of lying is avoided.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Take a heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice - This was strictly true; Samuel did offer a sacrifice; and it does not appear that he could have done the work which God designed, unless he had offered this sacrifice, and called the elders of the people together, and thus collected Jesse’s sons.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

How can I go?--This is another instance of human infirmity in Samuel. Since God had sent him on this mission, He would protect him in the execution. I am come to sacrifice--It seems to have been customary with Samuel to do this in the different circuits to which he went, that he might encourage the worship of God.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
שְׁמוּאֵל֙	she.mu.'El	Samuel	H8050 →
אֵ֣יךְ	'eikh	how?	H349 →
אֵלֵ֔ךְ	'e.Lekh	will I go	H1980 →
וְשָׁמַ֥ע	ve.sha.Ma'	and he will hear	H8085 →
שָׁא֖וּל	sha.'Ul	Saul	H7586 →
וַהֲרָגָ֑נִי ס	va.ha.ra.Ga.ni	and he will kill me	H2026 →
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
יְהוָ֗ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
עֶגְלַ֤ת	'eg.Lat	a heifer of	H5697 →
בָּקָר֙	ba.Kar	cattle	H1241 →
תִּקַּ֣ח	ti.Kach	you will take	H3947 →
בְּיָדֶ֔ךָ	be.ya.De.kha	in hand your	H3027 →
וְאָ֣מַרְתָּ֔	ve.'A.mar.ta	and you will say	H559 →
לִזְבֹּ֥חַ	liz.Bo.ach	to sacrifice	H2076 →
לַֽיהוָ֖ה	la.Yah.weh	to Yahweh	H3068 →
בָּֽאתִי׃	Ba.ti	I have come	H935 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

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
Matthew 10:16
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
leads to
- Philippians 2:15
  so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
- Luke 10:3
  Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.
- 1 Corinthians 14:20
  Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
- Colossians 4:5
  Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time.
- Ephesians 5:15–17
  Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
Through
1 Samuel 9:12
“Yes, he is ahead of you,” they answered. “Hurry now, for today he has come to the city because the people have a sacrifice on the high place.
leads to
- Genesis 31:54
  Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.
- 1 Samuel 10:5
  After that you will come to Gibeah of God, where the Philistines have an outpost. As you approach the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place, preceded…
- 1 Kings 3:2–4
  The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.