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1 Samuel 28:15

Y Samuel dijo a Saúl: ¿Por qué me has inquietado haciéndome venir? Y Saúl respondió: Estoy muy congojado; pues los filisteos pelean contra mí, y Dios se ha apartado de mí, y no me responde más, ni por mano de profetas, ni por sueños: por esto te he llamado, para que me declares qué tengo que hacer.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Apostasy;   En-Dor;   Familiar Spirits;   Holy Spirit;   Necromancy;   Reprobacy;   Samuel;   Saul;   Sorcery;   Witchcraft;   Thompson Chain Reference - Comfort-Misery;   Misery;   Sin;   Sin's;   Sinners;   Wicked, the;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Idolatry;   Prayer, Answers to;   Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Endor;   Soul;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Samuel;   Saul, king of israel;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Descent into Hell (Hades);   Magic;   Sheol;   Word;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Magic;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Divination;   Saul;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Divination and Magic;   Medium;   Samuel, Books of;   Urim and Thummim;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Death;   Dreams;   En-Dor;   Eschatology;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Descent into Hades;   Dream (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Magic;   Saul;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Intercession;   Samuel;   Samuel, Books of;   Sheol;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abraham Ha-Levi ben Eliezer Ha-Zaḳen;   Dreams;   Endor, the Witch of;   Samuel;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for February 9;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Entonces Samuel dijo a Saúl: ¿Por qué me has perturbado haciéndome subir? Y Saúl respondió: Estoy en gran angustia, pues los filisteos hacen guerra contra mí; Dios se ha apartado de mí y ya no me responde ni por los profetas ni por sueños; por esto te he llamado, para que me reveles lo que debo hacer.
La Biblia Reina-Valera
Samuel 28:15"> 15 Y Samuel dijo á Saúl: ¿Por qué me has inquietado haciéndome venir? Y Saúl respondió: Estoy muy congojado; pues los Filisteos pelean contra mí, y Dios se ha apartado de mí, y no me responde más, ni por mano de profetas, ni por sueños: por esto te he llamad
Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Y Samuel dijo a Saúl: ¿Por qué me has inquietado haciéndome venir? Y Saúl respondió: Estoy muy acongojado; pues los filisteos pelean contra mí, y Dios se ha apartado de mí, y no me responde más, ni por mano de profetas, ni por sueños; por esto te he llamado, para que me declares qué tengo de hacer.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Why hast: 1 Samuel 28:8, 1 Samuel 28:11

I am sore: Proverbs 5:11-13, Proverbs 14:14, Jeremiah 2:17, Jeremiah 2:18

the Philistines: 1 Samuel 28:4

God: 1 Samuel 16:13, 1 Samuel 16:14, 1 Samuel 18:12, Judges 16:20, Psalms 51:11, Hosea 9:12, Matthew 25:41

answereth: 1 Samuel 28:6, 1 Samuel 23:2, 1 Samuel 23:4, 1 Samuel 23:9, 1 Samuel 23:10

prophets: Heb. the hand of prophets

therefore: Luke 16:23-26

Reciprocal: Judges 10:9 - distressed 1 Samuel 30:8 - he answered him 1 Samuel 31:1 - the Philistines Psalms 27:3 - war Jeremiah 21:2 - Inquire Amos 8:11 - but Micah 3:7 - no 2 Corinthians 4:8 - yet

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Samuel said to Saul, why hast thou disquieted me to bring me up?.... This makes it a clear case that this was not the true Samuel; his soul was at rest in Abraham's bosom, in the state of bliss and happiness in heaven, and it was not in the power of men and devils to disquiet it; nor would he have talked of his being brought up, but rather of his coming down, had it been really he; much less would he have acknowledged that he was brought up by Saul, by means of a witch, and through the help of the devil:

and Saul answered, I am sore distressed; in mind, being in great straits and difficulties, pressed hard upon by men, and forsaken of God, as follows:

for the Philistines make war against me; so they had many times, and he had been victorious, and had no reason to be so much distressed, if that was all: but he adds,

and God is departed from me: and therefore he feared he should be left to fall into their hands; and that he had forsaken him he concluded from hence,

and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams:

:-; he makes no mention of Urim, either because they were not with him to inquire by, being carried away by Abiathar when he fled to David, 1 Samuel 23:9; or, as the Jews say h, through shame, he said nothing of the Urim before Samuel, as he took this appearance to be, because he had slain the priests at Nob, and because of this shame, they say, his sin was forgiven him:

therefore have I called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do; which was downright madness and folly to imagine, that since God had forsaken him, and would give him no answer, that a prophet of his should take his part; or when he could get no answer from a prophet of God on earth, that he could expect an agreeable one from one fetched down from heaven: one would be tempted to think that he himself believed it was the devil he was talking to, and whom he had called for under the name of Samuel, and expected to see; for from whom else could he expect advice, when he was forsaken of God, and his prophets?

h T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 12. 2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 28:15. Why hast thou disquieted me — The complaint is not directed against the woman but against Saul. Indeed, her incantations had no influence in the business, and it does not appear that she had commenced her operations before the angels had prepared the way of the prophet, and before the prophet himself had made his appearance.

That thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do. — In his former difficulties, and when pressed by his enemies, he was in the habit of consulting Samuel; and now he applies to him as his former preceptor. God, he knew, might answer by such a man as Samuel, when he would answer by no other means.


 
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