...Scriptures, they will easily find as good reason as Saul to open their ears, and to listen unto Satan. " God answereth me no more neither by prophets, nor by dreams : therefore I have called thee, that tnou mayest tell me what to do." How often are we warned in Scripture to take heed that we build not...

...reason as Saul to open their ears, and to listen unto Satan, " God answereth me no more neither is«m. by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest tell me what to do." 17. How often are we warned in scriptures to take Precepts of heed that we build...

...world, and there break his deep tranquillity ?) And Saul replies, as a melancholy and despairing man, " I am sore distressed ; for the Philistines make war...therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known to me what I shall do." Oh ! the madness of Saul, who, knowing that God would not answer him, thought...

...sins, and is now above for evermore ! Samuel prophesieth to Saul, whofainteth, but is refreshed. 15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, 1 am sore distressed ; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth...

...earth, &e. — Josh, xxiii. 14; 1 Kings ii. 2. Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, &c. and Samuel said to Saul, why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? — 1 Sam. xxviii. 3. 15. David, and his men with him, mourned and wept, and fasted until even, for...

...Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with Ms face to the ground, and bowed himself. 15 r eople: and pardon our iniquity and our sin. and take us for thine inheritance. 10 f And he said. 16 Then said Samuel. Wherefore then dost thou ask of me. seeing the LORD is departed from thee. and...

...the rebuke of the Holy One, blessed be He! R. Eleazar, when he came to the [following] verse, wept: "And Samuel said to Saul: Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up?" (1 Sam. 28:15). Now if Samuel, the righteous, was afraid of the Judgment, how much more so should we...

...of Samson the words are, "the Lord had departed from him", in the case of Saul the narrative reads, "God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets nor by dreams". The material sense of both I take to be, that the stimulant had lost its power over them, it being...

...Samuel. THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL to make me be brought up? And Saul answered: I am sore encumbered. For the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me and answered me no more, neither by prophets, neither by dreams. And therefore have I called thee, to tell...

...18.2), can also be seen in Saul's (c. 1020-1000 BC) lament: I am sore distressed; for the Philistines war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams. (I Samuel 28:15) Unlike the Egyptians, however, the Jews did not use magic to invoke divine dreams,...