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1 Samuel 28:22

in 1 Samuel 28

Now please listen to your servant and let me set a morsel of bread before you so you may eat and have the strength to go on your way.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thy handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.

KJV

Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.

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This verse in 1 Samuel 28

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

She had a fat calf at hand (and the word signifies one that was made use of in treading out the corn, and therefore could the worse be spared); this she prepared for his entertainment,

This site's exposition

I took my life in my hands and did as you told me

on 1 Samuel 28:21-25

The woman whose craft Saul's law had outlawed is the one who feeds him. She slaughters a fattened calf, and Henry recalls that Josephus praised her kindness to a guest who could do nothing for her. The chapter ends in darkness, with Saul and his servants leaving that night.

This site's exposition

let me set a morsel of bread

The woman asks Saul to listen to her as she had obeyed him in verse 21. Matthew Henry notes that the calf she then killed was likely one used for treading out grain, and so hard to spare. Her small offer of bread becomes a full meal.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

2 And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever. 3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city.

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Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid,....

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְעַתָּ֗הand now

    veatahH6258 →433 times

  • שְׁמַֽע־listen

    shema'-H8085 →1159 times

  • נָ֤אplease

    na'H4994 →404 times

  • גַם־also

    gam-H1571 →769 times

  • אַתָּה֙you

    ʾatahH859 →1094 times

  • בְּק֣וֹלto [the] voice of

    bekolH6963 →506 times

  • שִׁפְחָתֶ֔ךָmaidservant your

    shifchatekhaH8198 →63 times

  • וְאָשִׂ֧מָהso let me set

    veasimahH7760 →584 times

  • לְפָנֶ֛יךָ<to> before you

    lefaneikhaH6440 →2123 times

  • פַּת־a piece of

    pat-H6595 →

  • לֶ֖חֶםbread

    lechemH3899 →298 times

  • וֶאֱכ֑וֹלand eat

    veekholH398 →810 times

  • וִיהִ֤יso may it be

    vihiH1961 →3559 times

  • בְךָ֙in <the> you

    vekha

  • כֹּ֔חַstrength

    koachH3581 →126 times

  • כִּ֥יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • תֵלֵ֖ךְyou will go

    telekhH1980 →1546 times

  • בַּדָּֽרֶךְ׃on the way

    badarekhH1870 →707 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Samuel

Saul and the Witch of Endor — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Saul and the Witch of Endor — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
1 Samuel: the study guide →Read 1 Samuel 28 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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