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1 Samuel 10 — Sermon Preparation

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.

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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.

Matthew Henry 4 Alexander MacLaren 2 Spurgeon 1 John Wesley 1

“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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