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撒母耳记上 15:11

“我後悔立了掃羅為王,因為他已經離去不跟隨我,也不執行我的命令了。”撒母耳非常忿怒,整夜哀求耶和華。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agency;   Amalekites;   Backsliders;   Falsehood;   Gilgal;   Minister, Christian;   Presumption;   Repentance;   Rulers;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Backsliders;   Deterioration-Development;   Devotional Life;   Night (Ancient);   Penitence-Impenitence;   Prayer;   Repentance;   Samuel;   Saul, King of Israel;   Secret Prayer;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Amalekites, the;   Backsliding;   Forsaking God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Amalekites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - God;   Repentance;   Saul, king of israel;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - King, Kingship;   Mediator, Mediation;   Repentance;   Samuel, First and Second, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Samuel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Intercession;   Samuel, Books of;   Saul;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Agag;   Amalek, Amalekites;   Ban;   Israel;   Prayer;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Repentance;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Agag ;   Amalek, Amalekites ;   Repentance;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mordecai;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Agag;   Amalek;   Saul;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Apostasy;   Conversion;   Grief;   Intercession;   Unchangeable;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Memra;   Parashiyyot, the Four;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 立 扫 罗 为 王 , 我 後 悔 了 ; 因 为 他 转 去 不 跟 从 我 , 不 遵 守 我 的 命 令 。 撒 母 耳 便 甚 忧 愁 , 终 夜 哀 求 耶 和 华 。

Contextual Overview

10 Then the Lord spoke his word to Samuel: 11 "I am sorry I made Saul king, because he has stopped following me and has not obeyed my commands." Samuel was upset, and he cried out to the Lord all night long. 12 Early the next morning Samuel got up and went to meet Saul. But the people told Samuel, "Saul has gone to Carmel, where he has put up a monument in his own honor. Now he has gone down to Gilgal." 13 When Samuel came to Saul, Saul said, "May the Lord bless you! I have obeyed the Lord 's commands." 14 But Samuel said, "Then why do I hear cattle mooing and sheep bleating?" 15 Saul answered, "The soldiers took them from the Amalekites. They saved the best sheep and cattle to offer as sacrifices to the Lord your God, but we destroyed all the other animals." 16 Samuel said to Saul, "Stop! Let me tell you what the Lord said to me last night." Saul answered, "Tell me." 17 Samuel said, "Once you didn't think much of yourself, but now you have become the leader of the tribes of Israel. The Lord appointed you to be king over Israel. 18 And he sent you on a mission. He said, ‘Go and destroy those evil people, the Amalekites. Make war on them until all of them are dead.' 19 Why didn't you obey the Lord ? Why did you take the best things? Why did you do what the Lord said was wrong?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

repenteth me: 1 Samuel 15:35, Genesis 6:6, 2 Samuel 24:16, Psalms 110:4, Jeremiah 18:7-10, Amos 7:3, Jonah 3:10, Jonah 4:2

turned: Joshua 22:16, 1 Kings 9:6, Psalms 36:3, Psalms 78:41, Psalms 78:57, Psalms 125:5, Zephaniah 1:6, Matthew 24:13, Hebrews 10:38

hath not performed: 1 Samuel 15:3, 1 Samuel 15:9, 1 Samuel 13:13

it grieved: 1 Samuel 15:35, 1 Samuel 16:1, Psalms 119:136, Jeremiah 9:1, Jeremiah 9:18, Jeremiah 13:17, Luke 19:41-44, Romans 9:1-3

he cried: 1 Samuel 12:23, Psalms 109:4, Matthew 5:44, Luke 6:12

Reciprocal: Numbers 12:13 - General Joshua 11:15 - he left nothing 1 Samuel 8:6 - prayed 1 Samuel 15:13 - I have performed Nehemiah 1:6 - day and night Job 34:27 - turned Psalms 18:21 - have not Psalms 101:3 - them Proverbs 29:10 - but Jeremiah 11:10 - turned Jeremiah 18:10 - then Jeremiah 34:16 - ye turned Jeremiah 50:21 - and do Ezekiel 18:24 - when Hosea 4:16 - slideth Matthew 21:6 - and did Acts 13:22 - when Romans 10:1 - my heart's 2 Corinthians 12:8 - I besought Hebrews 10:39 - we are

Cross-References

Psalms 119:13
My lips will tell about all the laws you have spoken.
Ezekiel 17:3
Say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: A giant eagle with big wings and long feathers of many different colors came to Lebanon and took hold of the top of a cedar tree.
Ezekiel 17:7
"‘But there was another giant eagle with big wings and many feathers. The vine then bent its roots toward this eagle. It sent out its branches from the area where it was planted toward the eagle so he could water it.
Matthew 13:4
While he was planting, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and ate it all up.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king,.... Which is not to be understood of any change of mind, counsel, purpose, or decree in God, which is not consistent with his unchangeable nature; but of a change of dispensation, and outward dealings, and is spoken after the manner of men, who, when they repent of anything, change the course of their conduct and behaviour; and so the Lord does without any change of his mind and will, which alters not; and though he changes the outward dispensations of his providence, yet he never changes and alters in the matters and methods of his grace; though he repented he made Saul king, he never repents of his making his saints kings and priests for himself; his outward gifts he sometimes takes away, as an earthly crown and kingdom; but his gifts and calling, which are of special grace, are without repentance, :-.

for he is turned back from following me; from after my worship, as the Targum, from doing his will and work:

and hath not performed my commandments: particularly in this affair relating to Amalek:

and it grieved Samuel; that Saul should so soon be rejected from being king, and that he should do anything to deserve it; and whom Samuel had anointed king, and for whom he had a cordial respect, and to whom he wished well, both for his own personal good, and for the good of the people of Israel; so far was he from rejoicing at his fall, who came in his stead, and to whom he gave way in the affair of government:

and he cried unto the Lord all night; or prayed, as the Targum; either that the Lord would inform him of the particulars wherein Saul had done amiss, or that he would forgive his sin, and not reject him from the kingdom.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It grieved Samuel - “Samuel was angry, or displeased,” as Jonah was Jonah 4:1, and for a similar reason. Samuel was displeased that the king whom he had anointed should be set aside. It seemed a slur on his prophetic office.

He cried unto the Lord - With the wild scream or shriek of supplication. (See 1Sa 7:8-9; 1 Samuel 12:18.) The phrase and the action mark Samuel’s fervent, earnest character.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 15:11. It repenteth me that I have set up Saul — That is, I placed him on the throne; I intended, if he had been obedient, to have established his kingdom. He has been disobedient; I change my purpose, and the kingdom shall not be established in his family. This is what is meant by God's repenting-changing a purpose according to conditions already laid down or mentally determined.


 
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