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1 Samuel 15:34

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Then Samuel went to Ramah, but Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

KJV

Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

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Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Then Samuel went to Ramah,.... His native place, and where was his usual residence: and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul; which was also his birth place, and where was his father's house, and where he had his palace, and kept his court; and took its name from him, to distinguish it from another Gibeah; and so Josephus (w) says it was called Gabathsaoule, and was about thirty furlongs or four miles from Jerusalem. (w) De Bello Jud. l. 5. c. 2. sect. 1.

This site's exposition

Then Samuel went to Ramah

on 1 Samuel 15:34-35

Samuel goes to Ramah and Saul to Gibeah, and "to the day of his death, Samuel never again visited Saul" after this parting. Samuel mourns for him, a grief the older writers read as sorrow over a king he had anointed, not a relenting of the sentence. The chapter’s third statement of regret closes the account, and the next chapter sends Samuel to anoint the neighbor of verse 28.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Gregory the Dialogist

Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 6, Chapter 2 · Written before 604.

proposed

41. What is the house of the transgressor, if not the habit of wicked work? For whoever is enclosed in a perverse habit dwells, as it were, in a house. Saul therefore ascended to his house, when any reprobate, after the rebuke of teachers, returns to the practice of evil work. For he descended, as it were, to the plains when he feigned humility in order to learn the commands of his superiors. But what does it mean that Samuel is said to have departed before Saul ascended to his house?

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. 9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

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The words behind it

9 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.

  • וַיֵּ֥לֶךְand he went

    vaiyelekhH1980 →1546 times

  • שְׁמוּאֵ֖לSamuel

    shemuelH8050 →141 times

  • הָרָמָ֑תָה<the> Ramah towards

    haramatahH7414 →36 times

  • וְשָׁא֛וּלand Saul

    veshaulH7586 →402 times

  • עָלָ֥הhe went up

    ʾalahH5927 →890 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • בֵּית֖וֹhouse his

    beitoH1004 →2046 times

  • גִּבְעַ֥תGibeah of

    givatH1390 →45 times

  • שָׁאֽוּל׃Saul

    shaulH7586 →402 times

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

Related verses

8 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 11:4When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.5 worksHosea 5:8Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; raise the battle cry in Beth-aven: Lead on, O Benjamin!4 works1 Samuel 10:26Saul also went to his home in Gibeah, and the men of valor whose hearts God had touched went with him.3 works1 Samuel 7:17Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, and there he judged Israel and built an altar to the LORD.2 worksIsaiah 10:29They have crossed at the ford: “We will spend the night at Geba.” Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.2 works1 Samuel 13:2He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the troops he sent away, each to his own home.2 works
The other 2 cross-references, with their words ▾
1 Kings 15:17Baasha king of Israel went to war against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.2 works1 Samuel 19:18So David ran away and escaped. And he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.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

    1 Samuel 11:4

    When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 10:26

      Saul also went to his home in Gibeah, and the men of valor whose hearts God had touched went with him.

    • Judges 2:4

      When the angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

    • Judges 21:2

      So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.

    • 1 Samuel 30:4

      So David and the troops with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no strength left to weep.

    • Galatians 6:2

      Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 7:17

    Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, and there he judged Israel and built an altar to the LORD.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 1:19

      The 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…

    • 1 Samuel 8:4

      So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.

    • 1 Samuel 1:1

      Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of…

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Samuel

The Death of Agag — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Death of Agag — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
1 Samuel: the study guide →Read 1 Samuel 15 →

This page draws on Gregory the Dialogist, Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 6, Chapter 2; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. G. Blaikie, The First Book of Samuel (Expositor's Bible).

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