1 Samuel 16:23

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Dan setiap kali apabila roh yang dari pada Allah itu hinggap pada Saul, maka Daud mengambil kecapi dan memainkannya; Saul merasa lega dan nyaman, dan roh yang jahat itu undur dari padanya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dan setiap kali apabila roh yang dari pada Allah itu hinggap pada Saul, maka Daud mengambil kecapi dan memainkannya; Saul merasa lega dan nyaman, dan roh yang jahat itu undur dari padanya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sesungguhnya apabila berlakulah syaitan dari Allah itu atas Saul, diambil oleh Daud akan kecapinya, dipetiknya dengan tangannya, lalu Saulpun beroleh senang dan menjadi baik pula dan syaitan itupun undurlah dari padanya.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ But the spirite of the Lorde departed from Saul, and an euill spirite [sent] of the Lord vexed him. ¹⁵ And Sauls seruauntes said vnto him: Beholde, an euill spirite [sent] of God vexeth thee. ¹⁶ Let our Lorde therefore commaunde thy seruauntes (that are before thee) to seeke a man that is a cunnyng player with an harpe: that when the euill spirite of God commeth vpon thee, he may play with his hande, & thou shalt be eased. ¹⁷ Saul sayd vnto his seruauntes: Prouide me a man then that can play well, and bring him to me. ¹⁸ The aunswered one of his seruauntes and said: Beholde, I haue seene a sonne of Isai the Bethlehemite, that can play vpon instrumentes, and is strong, valiaunt, and a man of warre, and prudent in doing of feates, and well made, and the Lorde is with him. ¹⁹ Wherefore Saul sent messengers vnto Isai, and said: Sende me Dauid thy sonne, which is with the sheepe. ²⁰ And Isai tooke an asse [laden] with bread, and a flacket of wine, and a kyd, and sent them by Dauid his sonne vnto Saul. ²¹ And Dauid came to Saul, and stoode before him, and he loued him very well, & he was made his harnesse bearer. ²² And Saul sent to Isai, saying: Let Dauid nowe remaine with me, for he hath founde fauour in my sight. ²³ And so when the [euill] spirite of God came vpon Saul, Dauid toke an harpe and played with his hand: and so Saul was refreshed, & did amende, and the euyll spirite departed from him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the evil spirit: 1 Samuel 16:14, 1 Samuel 16:16

Saul: 1 Samuel 18:10, 1 Samuel 18:11, Matthew 12:43-45, Luke 11:24-26

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 3:15 - bring me 1 Chronicles 13:8 - with harps

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass, when the [evil] spirit from God was upon Saul,.... See 1 Samuel 16:14 though the word evil is not in the text here; wherefore Abarbinel thinks that this here was the Spirit of God, which stirred up in him thoughts of divine things, put him in mind of what God had said, that he had rejected him from being king, and had rent the kingdom from him; and this filled him with grief and trouble, and he became melancholy:

that David took an harp, and played with his hands; upon it; and, as Josephus r says, at the same time sung hymns and psalms; made use both of vocal and instrumental music:

so Saul was refreshed, and was well; became cheerful, his grief was removed, his black and gloomy apprehensions of things were dispersed, and he was cured of his melancholy disorder for the present:

and the evil spirit departed from him: at least for a while; he had his fits and intervals; of the effects of music in a natural way,

1 Samuel 16:14- :, though no doubt the music of David was more than natural, being attended with the power and blessing of God, in order to raise his fame and credit at court.

r Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 6. c. 8. sect. 2.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 16:23. The evil spirit from God — The word evil is not in the common Hebrew text, but it is in the Vulgate, Septuagint, Targum, Syriac, and Arabic, and in eight of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., which present the text thus: רוח אלהים רעה ruach Elohim raah, spiritus Domini malus, the evil spirit of God. The Septuagint leave out Θεου, of God, and have πνευμα πονηρον, the evil spirit. The Targum says, The evil spirit from before the Lord; and the Arabic has it. The evil spirit by the permission of God; this is at least the sense.

And the evil spirit departed from him. — The Targum says, And the evil spirit descended up from off him. This considers the malady of Saul to be more than a natural disease.

THERE are several difficulties in this chapter; those of the chronology are pretty well cleared, in the opinion of some, by the observations of Bishop Warburton; but there is still something more to be done to make this point entirely satisfactory. Saul's evil spirit, and the influence of music upon it, are not easily accounted for. I have considered his malady to be of a mixed kind, natural and diabolical; there is too much of apparent nature in it to permit us to believe it was all spiritual, and there is too much of apparent supernatural influence to suffer us to believe that it was all natural.