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Louis Segond

1 Samuel 9:12

Elles leur répondirent en disant: Oui, il est devant toi; mais va promptement, car aujourd'hui il est venu à la ville parce qu'il y a un sacrifice pour le peuple sur le haut lieu.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - High Places;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   High Places;   Home;   Places;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - High Places;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - High Places;   Ramah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Baal;   Prophecy, prophet;   Sacrifice;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Benjamin;   David;   Kish;   Synagogue;   Holman Bible Dictionary - High Place;   Transportation and Travel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - City;   Idolatry;   Israel;   Samuel;   Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - High Place;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - High places;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ben'jamin, the Tribe of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - City;   Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   High Place;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abbreviations;   High Place;   Sacrifice;   Saul;  

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et elles leur rpondirent, et dirent: Il y est, le voil devant toi; hte-toi maintenant; car il est venu aujourd'hui la ville, parce que le peuple fait aujourd'hui un sacrifice sur le haut lieu.
Darby's French Translation
Et elles leur rpondirent et dirent: Il y est; le voil devant toi: hte-toi maintenant, car aujourd'hui il est venu la ville, parce que le peuple a aujourd'hui un sacrifice sur le haut lieu.
La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et elles leur rpondirent, et dirent : Il y est, le voil devant toi; hte-toi maintenant, car il est venu aujourd'hui en la ville, parce qu'il y a aujourd'hui un sacrifice pour le peuple dans le haut lieu.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sacrifice: or, feast, 1 Samuel 16:2, Genesis 31:54, Deuteronomy 12:6, Deuteronomy 12:7, 1 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Corinthians 5:8

the high place: 1 Kings 3:2-4, 1 Chronicles 16:39

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 7:9 - a sucking 1 Samuel 16:3 - call Jesse 1 Samuel 20:6 - sacrifice 1 Corinthians 10:18 - are

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they answered them, and said, he is,.... That is, he is in the city, at home, and to be spoken with:

behold, he is before you; his house is straight before you as you go along, you cannot miss of it. Some Jewish writers say f they gave a token to know it by, that there was a cloud at the door, and when they saw that, they might know it was the seer's house:

haste now, for he came today to the city; from the suburbs to it, or from his country house, or from the other Ramah, for there were two of them, one over against the other, see 1 Samuel 1:1, for that he was just now come off a circuit, is not so probable, since he was now old, and past riding his circuits; and indeed the meaning may be no more than as it may be rendered, "today he comes into the city" g; that is, he comes out of his own house into the city, and was then just coming out; so that, if they made haste, they might meet him in the street before he got to the place of sacrifice and feasting:

for there is a sacrifice of the people today in the high place; whether it was the new moon, or some festival they observed, though the tabernacle was not there, is not certain; at which, besides the offerings required, freewill offerings and peace offerings were brought by the people, on part of which they feasted with their friends; and very probably, as Samuel was acquainted by the Lord that he who was to be king of Israel would be with him that day, he might add to the sacrifices of the people, to make the entertainment the more grand and liberal; since he had a principal concern in ordering the guests, and dividing the portions, as well as blessing the food, which indeed he might take upon him, as being judge, priest, and prophet: this was an high place where this sacrifice or feast was; for Shiloh being destroyed, and the tabernacle removed elsewhere, and that being in one place, and the ark in another, and they not together, no distinction of places was made, none being yet chosen, all were fit; and particularly high places, which were always reckoned the most proper for divine service and sacrifice.

f Midrash Schemuel & Pesikta apud Abarbinel in loc. g בא "venit", Pagninus, Montanus.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 9:12. He came to-day to the city — Though Samuel lived chiefly in Ramah, yet he had a dwelling in the country, at a place called Naioth, where it is probable there was a school of the prophets. See 1 Samuel 19:18-24.

A sacrifice of the people — A great feast. The animals used were first sacrificed to the Lord; that is, their blood was poured out before him; and then all the people fed on the flesh. By high place probably Samuel's altar is alone meant; which no doubt was raised on an eminence.


 
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