Passage Research
1 Samuel 10 — Sermon Preparation
Samuel anoints Saul privately and gives him three confirming signs; later, Saul is publicly chosen by lot before all Israel at Mizpah. Below is a research summary for 1 Samuel 10, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 27
- verses
- 442 / 171
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 8
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
1 Samuel 10 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שְׁמוּאֵל | Shᵉmûwʼêl | H8050 | 10 | Shemuël |
| שָׁאוּל | Shâʼûwl | H7586 | 7 | Shaul |
| עַם | ʻam | H5971 | 9 | people, tribe |
| נָבָא | nâbâʼ | H5012 | 5 | prophesy, speak |
| מָצָא | mâtsâʼ | H4672 | 6 | come, appear |
| אָתוֹן | ʼâthôwn | H860 | 4 | female donkey |
| נָבִיא | nâbîyʼ | H5030 | 5 | prophet, inspired man |
How preachers through history handled this text
8 public-domain excerpts on 1 Samuel 10, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Samuel tells the people, Ye have this day rejected your God. So little fond was Saul now of that power, which soon after, when he possessed it, he could not think of parting with, that he hid himself. It is good to be conscious of our unworthiness and insufficiency for the services to which we are called; but men should not go into the contrary extreme, by refusing the employments to which the Lord and the church call them. The greater part of the people treated the matter with indifference. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on 1 Samuel 10:17–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Gibeah 1— 1 Sam 10:10
- Mizpah 3— 1 Sam 10:17
- Egypt— 1 Sam 10:18
- Zelzah— 1 Sam 10:2
- Jabesh-gilead— 1 Sam 10:27
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