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1 Samuel 9:26

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They got up early in the morning, and just before dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get ready, and I will send you on your way!” So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went outside together.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.

KJV

And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.

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Commentary

9 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house--Saul was taken to lodge with the prophet for that night. Before retiring to rest, they communed on the flat roof of the house, the couch being laid there (Jos 2:6), when, doubtless, Samuel revealed the secret and described the peculiar duties of a monarch in a nation so related to the Divine King as Israel.

This site's exposition

Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof

on 1 Samuel 9:25-26

The night's conversation happens on the housetop, and Samuel uses the whole night to prepare Saul for what the morning will bring. They rise early and walk out together, an unremarkable start to a day that will end with a private anointing the town never sees.

This site's exposition

They got up early in the morning

Saul had slept on the roof, where Albert Barnes notes that Eastern houses often gave guests extra room under a tent or awning. Samuel wakes him there before dawn. Jamieson, Fausset & Brown compare the flat roof at Jericho in Joshua 2:6.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church2 voices

A commentator

Bede

Commentary on Samuel · Written before 735.

proposed

And Saul arose, and they went out together, etc. And Jesus manifested His glory, and His disciples believed in Him. Both of them went out, namely He and John, from the hidden contemplation of the divine will, and proceeded to show forth the great works …

A commentator

Gregory the Dialogist

Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 4, Chapter 4 · Written before 604.

proposed

Fittingly, therefore, there is added: "And when they had risen in the morning, and it was now growing light, Samuel called to Saul on the rooftop, saying: Arise, and I will send you on your way." Indeed, morning dawns when the splendor of truth opens itself to the quiet mind. For the human mind becomes dark through ignorance and bright through the illumination of truth. Therefore, one who is ignorant is in night; when illuminated, in day.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

And these beginnings would have been very hopeful and promising if it had not been that the sin of the people was the spring of this great affair. 1 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Called Saul to the top of the house - Saul had no doubt slept there all night; and now, it being the break of day, “Samuel called to Saul on the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away.” There was no calling him to the house-top a second time he was sleeping there, and Samuel called him up.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

To the top of the house - “On the top.” The bed on which Saul slept was on the top of the house. It is very common in the East to provide extra sleeping accommodation by placing a tent or awning on the house-top.

The words behind it

19 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.

  • וַיַּשְׁכִּ֗מוּand they rose early

    vaiyashkimuH7925 →65 times

  • וַיְהִ֞יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • כַּעֲל֤וֹתwhen came up

    kaalotH5927 →890 times

  • הַשַּׁ֙חַר֙the dawn

    hashacharH7837 →

  • וַיִּקְרָ֨אand he called

    vaiyikra'H7121 →733 times

  • שְׁמוּאֵ֤לSamuel

    shemuelH8050 →141 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • שָׁאוּל֙Saul

    shaulH7586 →402 times

  • הַגָּ֣גָהthe roof towards

    hagaghH1406 →

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • ק֖וּמָהarise !

    kumahH6965 →628 times

  • וַאֲשַׁלְּחֶ֑ךָּso I may send away you

    vaashalechekaH7971 →845 times

  • וַיָּ֣קָםand he arose

    vaiyakomH6965 →628 times

  • שָׁא֗וּלSaul

    shaulH7586 →402 times

  • וַיֵּצְא֧וּand they went out

    vaiyetzeuH3318 →1067 times

  • שְׁנֵיהֶ֛ם[the] two of them

    sheneihemH8147 →768 times

  • ה֥וּאhe

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • וּשְׁמוּאֵ֖לand Samuel

    ushemuelH8050 →141 times

  • הַחֽוּצָה׃the outside towards

    hachutzahH2351 →

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

Related verses

7 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

1 Samuel 1:19The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.5 worksJudges 4:14Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise, for this is the day that the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone before you?” So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.3 worksJudges 19:28“Get up,” he told her. “Let us go.” But there was no response. So the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.2 worksGenesis 19:14So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.2 worksGenesis 44:4They had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, “Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?2 worksJoshua 7:13Get up and consecrate the people, saying, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Among you, O Israel, there are things devoted to destruction. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
1 Kings 11:21When Hadad heard in Egypt that David had rested with his fathers and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead, he said to Pharaoh, “Let me go, that I may return to my own country.”2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Joshua 7:13

    Get up and consecrate the people, saying, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Among you, O Israel, there are things devoted to destruction. You cannot…

    it leads to

    • Lamentations 3:40–41

      Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.

    • Joshua 3:5

      Then Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”

    • Matthew 7:5

      You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

  • Through

    Genesis 19:14

    So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 16:21

      “Separate yourselves from this congregation so that I may consume them in an instant.”

    • Numbers 16:26

      And he warned the congregation, “Move away now from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”

    • Jeremiah 51:6

      Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.

    • Numbers 16:45

      “Get away from this congregation so that I may consume them in an instant.” And Moses and Aaron fell facedown.

    • 2 Chronicles 30:10

      And the couriers traveled from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun; but the people scorned and mocked them.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Samuel

Anointing of David by Samuel, Félix-Joseph Barrias, 1842, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris. Public domain.
Anointing of David by Samuel, Félix-Joseph Barrias, 1842, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris. Public domain.
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This page draws on 9 works. Open the list of works

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Commentary on Samuel; Gregory the Dialogist, Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 4, Chapter 4; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Books of Samuel; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. G. Blaikie, The First Book of Samuel (Expositor's Bible).

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