1 Samuel 10:13
in 1 Samuel 10And when Saul had finished prophesying, he went up to the high place.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
KJV
And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
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This verse in 1 Samuel 10
Commentary
5 notes on this verseHe came to the high place - I suppose this to mean the place where Saul’s father lived; as it is evident the next verse shows him to be at home.
This site's exposition
a company of prophets met him
on 1 Samuel 10:10-13
Saul meets the same kind of company the third sign promised, and prophesies among them exactly as told, so the sign is fulfilled to the letter. Onlookers who knew him turn the surprise into a question, Is Saul also among the prophets, and a local man's sharp answer about the prophets' father turns it into a standing proverb. The same question returns word for word at 19:24, near the end of Saul's story, when the Spirit that once turned him into another man drives him instead to strip his robes and lie prophesying all that day and night before David, so the proverb brackets his whole reign between one meaning and its bitter reversal.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church2 voices
But he ceased to prophesy, etc. However, Jesus ceased to be considered a prophet, and began to be believed as Almighty God, of whom Isaiah to the pursuing peoples said: "Therefore desist from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is considered on …
A commentator
Gregory the DialogistCommentary on 1 Kings, Book 4, Chapter 5 · Written before 604.
proposed
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.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And when he had made an end of prophesying,....
The words behind it
4 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיְכַל֙ | vaykhal | and he finished | H3615 → | 208 times |
| מֵֽהִתְנַבּ֔וֹת | mehitnabot | from prophesying | H5012 → | 115 times |
| וַיָּבֹ֖א | vaiyavo' | and he came | H935 → | 2568 times |
| הַבָּמָֽה׃ | habamah | the high place | H1116 → | 102 times |
וַיְכַל֙and he finished
vaykhalH3615 →208 times
מֵֽהִתְנַבּ֔וֹתfrom prophesying
mehitnabotH5012 →115 times
וַיָּבֹ֖אand he came
vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times
הַבָּמָֽה׃the high place
habamahH1116 →102 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About 1 Samuel
Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Bede, Commentary on Samuel; Gregory the Dialogist, Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 4, Chapter 5; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Books of Samuel and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.