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1 Samuel 10:8

in 1 Samuel 10

And you shall go before me to Gilgal, and surely I will come to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Wait seven days until I come to you and show you what you are to do.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt-offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace-offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come unto thee, and show thee what thou shalt do.

KJV

And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.

This verse in 1 Samuel 10

Commentary

9 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Seven days shalt thou tarry - I will come to thee within seven days, offer sacrifices, receive directions from the Lord, and deliver them to thee. It is likely that these seven days referred to the time in which Samuel came to Saul to Gilgal, offered sacrifices, and confirmed the kingdom to him, after he had defeated the Ammonites. See 1Sa 11:14, 1Sa 11:15.

This site's exposition

Wait seven days until I come to you

Samuel's order, “Wait seven days until I come to you”, is a plain command with a plain deadline. The book keeps it for chapter 13, where Saul breaks it and offers the burnt offering himself. The command comes at the outset of his reign, before Saul has done anything wrong, and its weight falls on it only in hindsight.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church2 voices

A commentator

Gregory the Dialogist

Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 4, Chapter 5 · Written before 604.

proposed

20. What does it mean that he first says: "Do whatever your hand finds," and then adds: "You shall wait seven days for me, until I come and show you what you are to do"? But he who had received the signs by which he would know himself anointed king by the Lord was to be tested as to whether he would recognize those very signs. This indeed suits a spiritual rather than a historical explanation.

A commentator

Bede

Commentary on Samuel · Written before 735.

proposed

And descending before me in Gilgal, etc. The Lord descended before John in Gilgal, that is, the place of rolling, namely those about which he speaks to the Father in the Psalm: Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my soul. …

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

It was now a plain intimation to him that he was upon his good behaviour, and, though a king, must act under the direction of Samuel, and do as he should order him. The greatest of men must own themselves in subjection to God and his word. 9 And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.

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A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

It seems this is given as a standing rule for Saul to observe while Samuel and he lived; that in case of any great future difficulties, as the invasion of enemies, Saul should resort to Gilgal, and call the people thither, and tarry there seven days, which was but a necessary time for gathering the people, and for the coming of Samuel thither.
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2 more voices on this verse

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal--This, according to JOSEPHUS, was to be a standing rule for the observance of Saul while the prophet and he lived; that in every great crisis, such as a hostile incursion on the country, he should repair to Gilgal, where he was to remain seven days, to afford time for the tribes on both sides Jordan to assemble, and Samuel to reach it.

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Seven days shalt thou tarry ... - The appointment here made is not to be confounded with that mentioned in marginal reference.

The words behind it

23 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.

  • וְיָרַדְתָּ֣and you will go down

    veyaradtaH3381 →381 times

  • לְפָנַי֮<to> before me

    lefanaiH6440 →2123 times

  • הַגִּלְגָּל֒<the> Gilgal

    hagilgalH1537 →41 times

  • וְהִנֵּ֤הand there!

    vehinehH2009 →843 times

  • אָֽנֹכִי֙I

    ʾanokhiH595 →359 times

  • יֹרֵ֣ד[am] about to come down

    yoredH3381 →381 times

  • אֵלֶ֔יךָto you

    ʾeleikhaH413 →5510 times

  • לְהַעֲל֣וֹתto offer up

    lehaalotH5927 →890 times

  • עֹל֔וֹתburnt offerings

    olotH5930 →287 times

  • לִזְבֹּ֖חַto sacrifice

    lizboachH2076 →134 times

  • זִבְחֵ֣יsacrifices of

    zivcheiH2077 →162 times

  • שְׁלָמִ֑יםpeace offerings

    shelamimH8002 →87 times

  • שִׁבְעַ֨תseven

    shivatH7651 →394 times

  • יָמִ֤יםdays

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • תּוֹחֵל֙may you wait

    tochelH3176 →

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • בּוֹאִ֣יcome I

    boiH935 →2568 times

  • אֵלֶ֔יךָto you

    ʾeleikhaH413 →5510 times

  • וְהוֹדַעְתִּ֣יand I will make known

    vehoda'tiH3045 →945 times

  • לְךָ֔to <the> you

    lekha

  • אֵ֖ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥ר[that] which

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • תַּעֲשֶֽׂה׃you will do

    taasehH6213 →2628 times

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

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

    1 Samuel 15:33

    But Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.

    it leads to

    • Judges 1:7

      Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought…

    • Genesis 9:6

      Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

    • Matthew 7:2

      For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

    • Revelation 18:6

      Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.

    • James 2:13

      For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 13:4

    And all Israel heard the news: “Saul has attacked an outpost of the Philistines, and now Israel has become a stench to the Philistines!” Then the people were summoned to join Saul at Gilgal.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 34:30

      Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if…

    • Exodus 5:21

      “May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill…

    • Zechariah 11:8

      And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.

About 1 Samuel

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 5; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.