Passage Research
1 Samuel 15 — Sermon Preparation
Saul spares the Amalekite king and best livestock instead of destroying everything; Samuel rebukes him with 'to obey is better than sacrifice' and declares him rejected as king. Below is a research summary for 1 Samuel 15, 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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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 9
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
1 Samuel 15 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שְׁמוּאֵל | Shᵉmûwʼêl | H8050 | 22 | Shemuël |
| שָׁאוּל | Shâʼûwl | H7586 | 23 | Shaul |
| עֲמָלֵק | ʻĂmâlêq | H6002 | 10 | Amalek |
| אֲגַג | ʼĂgag | H90 | 7 | Agag |
| חָרַם | châram | H2763 | 7 | seclude, devote to religious uses |
| קוֹל | qôwl | H6963 | 7 | voice, sound |
| שָׁמַע | shâmaʻ | H8085 | 8 | hear, tell |
How preachers through history handled this text
9 public-domain excerpts on 1 Samuel 15, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Repentance in God is not a change of mind, as it is in us, but a change of method. The change was in Saul; "He is turned back from following me." Hereby he made God his enemy. Samuel spent a whole night in pleading for Saul. The rejection of sinners is the grief of believers: God delights not in their death, nor should we. Saul boasts to Samuel of his obedience. Thus sinners think, by justifying themselves, to escape being judged of the Lord. The noise the cattle made, like the rust of the silver, Jas 5:3, witnessed against him. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on 1 Samuel 15:10–23 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Carmel 1— 1 Sam 15:12
- Gilgal 1— 1 Sam 15:12
- Amalek— 1 Sam 15:2
- Egypt— 1 Sam 15:2
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