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1 Samuel 10:9

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As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed Saul’s heart, and all the signs came to pass that day.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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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This verse in 1 Samuel 10

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
23. For the heart is changed to another when it is directed toward desiring better things; the heart is also changed when it is abandoned to evil. But in the case of Saul, who was first good and afterward evil, how this ought rather to be understood literally is not very clear. But if it is said with reference to his advancement, he had a changed heart, because he who had been searching for donkeys was now thinking about the governance of a kingdom.

This site's exposition

God gave him another heart

The changed heart of this verse belongs to Saul alone; it describes a fitness for the office, not the settled character that later chapters will test and find wanting. Wesley and other older writers read it as a gift of extraordinary qualification for government rather than a permanent change in the man's disposition, since Saul's later course shows the gift was for the hour and not a lasting one. The phrase stands in the same book that will later have Samuel look for a man after God's own heart at 13:14, and the contrast between a given heart here and a heart proved wanting there is the book's own argument.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Bede

Commentary on Samuel · Written before 735.

proposed

So then, when He turned His shoulder, etc. When the Lord went away from John, immediately obeying the command of paternal dispensation, He was changed in a new thought, so that He who hitherto had been subject to His parents and was considered like other …

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

A new fire was kindled in his breast, such as he had never before been acquainted with: seeking the asses is quite out of his mind, and he thinks of nothing but fighting the Philistines, redressing the grievances of Israel, making laws, administering justice, and providing for the public safety; these are the things that now fill his head.
And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

The prophetic spirit had come upon him; and to Saul it was as personal and experimental an evidence of the truth of God's word that had been spoken to him, as converts to Christianity have in themselves from the sanctifying power of the Gospel.

The words behind it

17 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.

  • וְהָיָ֗הand it was

    vehayahH1961 →3559 times

  • כְּהַפְנֹת֤וֹwhen turned he

    kehafnotoH6437 →135 times

  • שִׁכְמוֹ֙shoulder his

    shikhmoH7926 →21 times

  • לָלֶ֙כֶת֙to go

    lalekhetH1980 →1546 times

  • מֵעִ֣םfrom with

    meimH5973 →1050 times

  • שְׁמוּאֵ֔לSamuel

    shemuelH8050 →141 times

  • וַיַּהֲפָךְ־and he changed

    vaiyahafokh-H2015 →94 times

  • ל֥וֹfor <the> him

    lo

  • אֱלֹהִ֖יםGod

    ʾelohimH430 →2601 times

  • לֵ֣בa heart

    levH3820 →595 times

  • אַחֵ֑רanother

    ʾacherH312 →166 times

  • וַיָּבֹ֛אוּand they came

    vaiyavouH935 →2568 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָאֹת֥וֹתthe signs

    haototH226 →80 times

  • הָאֵ֖לֶּה<the> these

    haelehH428 →746 times

  • בַּיּ֥וֹםon the day

    baiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַהֽוּא׃ ס<the> that

    hahu'H1931 →1879 times

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.

Judges 7:11and listen to what they are saying. Then your hands will be strengthened to attack the camp.” So he went with Purah his servant to the outposts where armed men were guarding the camp.4 worksIsaiah 38:7–8This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised:3 worksNumbers 27:20Confer on him some of your authority, so that the whole congregation of Israel will obey him.3 worksJudges 6:21Then the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.2 worksJudges 6:36–40Then Gideon said to God, “If You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said,2 works1 Samuel 10:2–6When you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachel’s tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and started worrying about you, asking, “What should I do about my son?”’2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
Mark 14:16So the disciples left and went into the city, where they found everything as Jesus had described. And they prepared the Passover.1 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

    Judges 6:21

    Then the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the…

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 9:24

      Fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell…

    • 1 Kings 18:38

      Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and it licked up the water in the trench.

    • 2 Chronicles 7:1

      When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

  • Through

    Judges 7:11

    and listen to what they are saying. Then your hands will be strengthened to attack the camp.” So he went with Purah his servant to the outposts where armed men were guarding the camp.

    it leads to

    • Ephesians 6:10

      Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.

    • 2 Corinthians 12:9–10

      But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of…

    • Philippians 4:13

      I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

    • Isaiah 35:3–4

      Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!

    • Genesis 24:14

      Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be…

About 1 Samuel

Samuel Blesses Saul — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Samuel Blesses Saul — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
1 Samuel: the study guide →Read 1 Samuel 10 →

This page draws on 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; 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.

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