1 Samuël 16:15

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Daarom zeiden Sauls dienaren tot hem: Zie eens, een boze geest der godheid verontrust u;

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Toen spraken Sauls knechten tot hem: Zie, een boze geest van God ontrust u zeer.

Staten Vertaling
Toen zeiden Sauls knechten tot hem: Zie toch, een boze geest Gods verschrikt u.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 16:1 - seeing 1 Samuel 18:10 - the evil spirit

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Saul's servants said unto him,.... His courtiers, who observing him to act in a frantic manner, to be dull and melancholy, timorous, and irresolute, unsteady, divided, and distressed; or his physicians, who were called in to assist him, and remove his disorder from him:

behold, now an evil spirit from God troubleth thee: the disorder was not from any natural cause, or any bodily disease, and therefore out of the reach of physicians to do any service, but was from an evil spirit suffered of God to harass and disturb him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “evil” or “melancholy” spirit here spoken of was “the Spirit of God,” or “of Jehovah,” as being God’s messenger and minister, sent by Him to execute His righteous purpose upon Saul (see 1 Kings 22:19-22 note).