--- title: "Bullinger" description: "The LORD . Hebrew. Jehovah . App-4 . the LORD of hosts . See note on 1 Samuel 1:3 . I remember . Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6 . how he" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/1-samuel/15" --- **The LORD** . Hebrew. *Jehovah* . App-4 . **the LORD of hosts** . See note on [1 Samuel 1:3](../../../kjv/1-samuel/1/3) . **I remember** . Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* *App-6* *.* **how he laid wait.** Compare [Exodus 17:8](../../../kjv/exodus/17/8) . **Now go** . Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "now therefore go". **Amalek.** Compare [Exodus 17:16](../../../kjv/exodus/17/16) . [Numbers 24:20](../../../kjv/numbers/24/20) . **utterly destroy** = devote to destruction. **man.** Hebrew. *'ish.* App-14 . **Telaim** . Probably Telem ([Joshua 15:24](../../../kjv/joshua/15/24) ). **men.** Hebrew. *'ish.* *App-14* *.* **from** . Supply Figure of speech *Ellipsis* ( App-6 ) thus: "[that dwell] from Havilah, "&c. **Kenites** . Said to be the same as the Rechabites. Go, depart. Note the Figure of speech *Asyndeton* in [1 Samuel 15:6](../../../kjv/1-samuel/15/6) . **and.** Note the Figure of speech *Polysyndeton* ( App-6 ) in this verse. **every thing that** ***was*** **vile** = all the stock that was worthless. **It repenteth Me** . Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* App-6 . **behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 . **place** . Hebrew a hand. Either to mark his claim to the place, or a monument, as in [2 Samuel 18:18](../../../kjv/2-samuel/18/18) . **on** = over. **I have performed.** See [1 Samuel 15:11](../../../kjv/1-samuel/15/11) . **God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 . **sinners.** Hebrew. *chata'.* App-44 . **they be consumed** = they have consumed them. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "thou have consumed them". **obey** = hearken to. **evil** = the evil. Hebrew. *ra`a`.* App-44 . **obeyed** = hearkened. **to obey** = to hearken to. **to hearken** = to give heed. **sin.** Hebrew. *chata'.* App-44 . **witchcraft** = divination or necromancy; i.e. dealings with spirits. **iniquity** . Hebrew. *'aven.* App-44 . **transgressed** . Hebrew. *`abar.* App-44 . **commandment** . Hebrew "mouth", put by Fig, *Metonymy* (of Cause), App-6 , for what is spoken by it. **words** . Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "word". **he** = Saul. **his** = Samuel's. Compare [1 Kings 11:30](../../../kjv/1-kings/11/30) , [1 Kings 11:31](../../../kjv/1-kings/11/31) . **the Strength** = the Eternal One. First occurrence. Hebrew. *nezah.* A Divine title. **repent** : i.e. as God, though He is said to do so by the Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* App-6 . **a man** . Hebrew. *'adam.* App-14 . **delicately** = in fetters ([Job 38:31](../../../kjv/job/38/31) ). Septuagint has "trembling"; Vulgate has "sleek and trembling". **As** = according as. **hewed** : i.e. commanded him to be hewed or cut asunder after death. Verb occurs only here. **Agag.** See note on Amalek ([Exodus 17:16](../../../kjv/exodus/17/16) , and Compare [1 Samuel 15:3](../../../kjv/1-samuel/15/3) ). **no more** . Compare [1 Samuel 16:1](../../../kjv/1-samuel/16/1) , 1Sa 16:14 ; [1 Samuel 19:23](../../../kjv/1-samuel/19/23) . **Samuel mourned** : i.e. as for one dead. 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