1 Samuel 9

First Book of Samuel chapter 1 Samuel 9 1 Samuel 8 chapter 8 1 Samuel 10 chapter 10 First book of Samuel Old Testament 9 Nevi'im 3 Former Prophets Leningrad-codex-08-samuel.pdf 250px The pages containing the Books of Samuel (1 & 2 Samuel) in Leningrad Codex (1008 CE). 1 Samuel 9 is the ninth chapter of the First Book of Samuel in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible or the first part of the Books of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible.Halley 1965 181 According to Jewish tradition the book was attributed to the prophet Samuel, with additions by the prophets Gad and Nathan,Hirsch Emil G. SAMUEL, BOOKS OF http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13080-samuel-books-of www.jewishencyclopedia.com but modern scholars view it as a composition of a number of independent texts of various ages from c. 630–540 BCE.Knight 1995 62Jones 2007 197 This chapter describes the meeting between Saul and Samuel which led to Saul's first anointing as king (1 Samuel 10:1–16),Coogan 2007 411 Hebrew Bible within a section comprising 1 Samuel 7–15 which records the rise of the monarchy in Israel and the account of the first years of King Saul.Jones 2007 203 Text This chapter was originally written in the Hebrew language. It is divided into 27 verses. Textual witnesses Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), Aleppo Codex (10th century), and Codex Leningradensis (1008).Würthwein 1995 35-37 Fragments containing parts of this chapter in Hebrew were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls including 4Q51 (4QSama; 100–50 BCE) with extant verses 6–8, 10–12, 16–24.Ulrich 2010 269–270Dead sea scrolls - 1 SamuelFitzmyer 2008 354Q51 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library Extant ancient manuscripts of a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint (originally was made in the last few centuries BCE) include Codex Vaticanus (B; B; 4th century) and Codex Alexandrinus (A; A; 5th century).Würthwein 1995 73-74The whole book of 1 Samuel is missing from the extant Codex Sinaiticus.Codex Sinaiticus Analysis This chapter introduces Saul, who was to be the first king of Israel, as a resolution to the request for a king left unfinished in the previous chapter.Evans 2018 114 The narrative bears some features of folk-tales: a young man setting out to find his father's missing donkeys comes out as designated king.Jones 2007 204 Saul's search led him to the prophet Samuel, who privately anointed Saul as king and provided three signs as confirmation to its legitimacy,Evans 2018 114 all of which were fulfilled in 1 Samuel 10:2–7.Jones 2007 205 Throughout the account, Saul appeared to be humble, but also showed lack of confidence and perhaps doubts about his calling to kingship.Evans 2018 114 Saul's genealogy (9:1–2) The listing of Saul's ancestry in the beginning of this chapter recalls the opening of the Books of Samuel (1 Samuel 1:1) which delineates Samuel's genealogy.Evans 2018 114 In both genealogies Samuel and Saul are listed in the sixth position.Evans 2018 115 The connection of Samuel's name to the word "asked" (Hebrew: shaul) in 1 Samuel 1:28 may also relate to the name of Saul (Hebrew: shaul)Evans 2018 115 Saul's genealogy has two noteworthy features:Evans 2018 115 Saul's father has an attribute of a "man of standing" (see 1 Samuel 9:1), so Saul came from a well-to-do family. Saul is from the tribe of Benjamin, which descended from Jacob's youngest son, Benjamin, and not long before this time had almost been annihilated because of their horrific actions (Judges 19–21).Evans 2018 115 These may emphasize God's direct participation in the events that Saul, a youth belonging to the smallest of the Israel tribes and the humblest of families (9:21) was endowed with extraordinary characteristics (9:2) to be elected as the first king of Israel.Jones 2007 205 Verse 1 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.1 Samuel 9:1 KJV KJV Cross reference: Genesis 46:21 9; 1 Samuel 14:51 9; 1 Chronicles 7:6–8 9; 1 Chronicles 8:29–33 9; 1 Chronicles 9:35–39 9Exell, Joseph S.; Spence-Jones, Henry Donald Maurice (Editors). On "1 Samuel 9". In: The Pulpit Commentary. 23 volumes. First publication: 1890. Accessed 24 April 2019. "Of Benjamite": in Hebrew is written (ketiv) as he מבן ימין and read (qere) as he מבנימין.1 Samuel 9:1 Hebrew Text Analysis. Biblehub "A Benjamite": in Hebrew is written as he בן־איש ימיני, ben H 1121-’îš H 376 yə-mî-nî H 3227 "A mighty man of power": attributed to Kish, Saul's father; translated from Hebrew he גבור חיל, gi-bōr H 1368 ḥā-yil H 2428, which may mean (1) a valiant man, as in 1 Samuel 16:18 9, or (2) a wealthy man as in Ruth 2:1 9, or the combined idea of personal valor and family importance ("a man of standing" in NIV), rendered in the Septuagint grc ἀνὴρ δυνατός, "a powerful man",Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges. 1 Samuel 9. Accessed 28 April 2019. Some ancestors seem to be omitted, among whom are Matri, mentioned in 1 Samuel 10:21; and Jehiel, mentioned in 1 Chronicles 9:35 (cf. 1 Chronicles 8:29), who was described as the first settler and coloniser of Gibeon, and as the husband of Maachah, a daughter or granddaughter of Caleb.Keil, Carl Friedrich; Delitzsch, Franz. Commentary on the Old Testament (1857-1878). 1 Samuel 9. Accessed 24 Juni 2018. An ancestor of Saul could have been among the 600 men of Benjamin who escaped to the rock Rimmon during the slaughter of the whole tribe by the other tribes of Israel (Judges 20:47–21:1). Samuel and Saul meet (9:3–27) Saul was told by his father, Kish, to look for their stray donkeys, so he and a servant went through the hill country of Ephraim until they arrived in the land of Zuph (9:5).Jones 2007 205 The servant persuaded Saul to visit a nameless seer (9:6–10), who was unfamiliar to them (cf. 9:18),Jones 2007 204 and turned out to be Samuel (9:14, 19).Evans 2018 115 A day before Samuel had been told by YHWH that the chosen man would come to him (9:16).Jones 2007 205 God commanded Samuel to anoint Saul not as "king" (Hebrew: melek), but "ruler" (Hebrew: nagid; "prince"), in contrast to the instruction for Samuel to anoint David as "king" in 1 Samuel 16:1 9.Evans 2018 117 After God clearly pointed Saul to Samuel ("Behold the man"; 1 Samuel 9:17 9), the prophet introduced himself to Saul as the seer and demonstrated his credentials by accurately speaking about Saul's donkeys.Evans 2018 117 Saul was invited by Samuel to a meal and given a choice of meat which had been set aside for Saul beforehand, again indicating that the meeting was not coincidental.Evans 2018 118 This "pre-coronation meal" was similar to the one organized later when Samuel anointed David (a meal and invited guests; 9:22).Evans 2018 118 Samuel did not use the occasion of the dinner to anoint Saul, but waited instead until the next morning (as described in 1 Samuel 10).Evans 2018 118 Verse 3 Now the donkeys of Kish, the father of Saul, were lost. And Kish said to his son Saul, "Take now one of the servants with you, and arise, go find the donkeys."1 Samuel 9:3 MEV MEV "Donkeys" the Hebrew word denotes "female donkeys", can be used for riding (Judges 10:4 9) and kept for breeding; they were not as confined as the males, so they could stray away. "Servants": translated from a Hebrew plural noun derived from the root word naar H 5288, which literally means "young boy",1 Samuel 9:3 Hebrew Text Analysis. Biblehub but in this context, it implies "servants" and need not to be young of age.Coogan 2007 411 Hebrew Bible The Syriac Peshitta version has additional words: "So Saul arose and went out. He took with him one of the boys and went out to look for his father's donkeys."Note [c] on 1 Samuel 9:3 in NET Bible Verse 5 When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, "Come, let us return, lest my father cease caring about the donkeys and become worried about us.1 Samuel 9:5 NKJV NKJV "Land of Zuph": a district where Samuel's city, Ramathaim-Zophim, was located (cf. 1 Samuel 1:1), in similar locality as Mount Ephraim; probably so named after Zuph or (Zophai in 1 Chronicles 6:26 9). Seligsohn, M., "Zuph", Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906 Verse 27 As they were going down to the outskirts of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us.” And he went on. “But you stand here awhile, that I may announce to you the word of God.”1 Samuel 9:27 NKJV NKJV "And he went on": This statement is found in Masoretic Text, as well as an Old Latin manuscript, and the Syriac Peshitta, but generally missing from Greek Septuagint version, except of Origen.Note on 1 Samuel 9:27 in NET Bible "Awhile":or "now"Note on 1 Samuel 9:27 in NKJV See also 22em Abiel Aphiah Bechorath King Mount Ephraim Philistines Prophet Shalim Shalisha Shekel Silver Tribe of Benjamin Zeror Zuph Bible Related Bible parts: 1 Samuel 1, 1 Samuel 8, 1 Samuel 10 Notes References Sources Commentaries on Samuel Auld Graeme 1 & 2 Samuel https://books.google.com/books?id=2Vo-11umIZQC&pg=PA213 James D. G. Dunn and John William Rogerson Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible Eerdmans 2003 9780802837110 Bergen David T. 1, 2 Samuel https://books.google.com/books?id=eGT6fWsajqcC B&H Publishing Group 1996 9780805401073 Chapman Stephen B. 1 Samuel as Christian Scripture: A Theological Commentary Wm. B. 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Petersen and Kent Harold Richards Chapter 4 Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomists Old Testament Interpretation T&T Clark 1995 9780567292896 Ulrich Eugene The Biblical Qumran Scrolls: Transcriptions and Textual Variants 2010 Brill https://archive.org/details/TheBiblicalQumranScrolls Würthwein Ernst Ernst Würthwein The Text of the Old Testament Wm. B. Eerdmans Grand Rapids, MI 1995 Erroll F. Rhodes 0-8028-0788-7 https://books.google.com/books?id=FSNKSBObCYwC January 26, 2019 Zuph External links Jewish translations: Shmuel I - I Samuel - Chapter 9 (Judaica Press). Hebrew text and English translation [with Rashi's commentary] at Chabad.org Christian translations: Online Bible at GospelHall.org (ESV, KJV, Darby, American Standard Version, Bible in Basic English) 1 Samuel chapter 9. Bible Gateway 09 Category:Saul Category:Samuel