And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
And he ceaseth from prophesying, and cometh in to the high place,
And when he had ended prophesying, he came to the high place.
1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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29. He comes to a high place after the ministry of prophecy, who raises his mind to the heavenly joys which he preaches, and lifts himself up by loving those things which he displays by speaking. Teachers indeed preach plain things with those of lesser rank; when they are with those whom they teach, they are, as it were, on level ground. And because after the words of preaching they prepare themselves by good works to merit the things they preach, they are said to come to a high place.
Gregory the Dialogist· Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 4, Chapter 5, 604patristic
And when he had made an end of prophesying,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
He came to the high place - I suppose this to mean the place where Sauls father lived; as it is evident the next verse shows him to be at home.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
