15And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
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And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. …
And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-19)We have here the conference between Saul and Satan. Saul came in disguise (1 Sam. 28:8), but Satan soon discovered him, 1 Sam. 28:12. Satan comes in disguise, in the disguise of Samuel’s mantle, and Saul cannot discover him. Such is the disadvantage we labour under, in wrestling with the rulers of the darkness of this world , that they know us, while we are ignorant of their wiles and devices. I.…
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