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ULTAnd Samuel turned around to go. And he grabbed the edge of his robe, and it was torn.
USTSo I do not want to talk anymore with you, either.” ¶ As Samuel turned to leave, Saul tried to stop him by grabbing the edge of Samuel’s robe, and it tore.
BSB § As Samuel turned to go, Saul grabbed the hem of his robe, and it tore.
OEBAs Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, but it tore.
WEBAs Samuel turned around to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
BBEAnd when Samuel was turning round to go away, Saul took the skirt of his robe in his hand, and the cloth came away.
MoffNo Moff 1SA book available
JPSAnd as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his robe, and it rent.
ASVAnd as Samuel turned about to go away, Saul laid hold upon the skirt of his robe, and it rent.
DRAAnd Samuel turned about to go away: but he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
YLTAnd Samuel turneth round to go, and he layeth hold on the skirt of his upper robe — and it is rent!
DrbyAnd as Samuel turned to go away, [Saul] laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
RVAnd as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his robe, and it rent.
WbstrAnd as Samuel turned about to depart, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
KJB-1769And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
KJB-1611And as Samuel turned about to goe away, he laid hold vpon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent. (Modernised spelling is same as used by KJB-1769 above)
BshpsAnd as Samuel turned hym selfe to go away, he caught the lappe of his coate, and it rent. (And as Samuel turned himself to go away, he caught the lappe of his coate, and it rent.)
GnvaAnd as Samuel turned himselfe to goe away, he caught the lappe of his coate, and it rent. (And as Samuel turned himself to go away, he caught the lappe of his coate, and it rent.)
CvdlAnd whan Samuel turned him backe to go his waye, he gat him by ye edge of his garment, & rete it. (And when Samuel turned him back to go his way, he gat him by ye/you_all edge of his garment, and rete it.)
WycAnd Samuel turnede to go a wey; sotheli Saul took the ende of the mentil of Samuel, which also was to-rent. (And Samuel turned to go a wey; truly Saul took the end of the mentil of Samuel, which also was to-rent.)
LuthUnd als sich Samuel umwandte, daß er wegginge, ergriff er ihn bei einem Zipfel seines Rocks, und er zerriß. (And als itself/yourself/themselves Samuel umwandte, that he wegginge, ergriff he him/it at one Zipfel seines Rocks, and he zerriß.)
ClVgEt conversus est Samuel ut abiret: ille autem apprehendit summitatem pallii ejus, quæ et scissa est.[fn] (And conversus it_is Samuel as abiret: ille however apprehendit summitatem pallii his, which and scissa est.)
15.27Ille autem. Sicut in passione Domini pontifex vestimentum scidit, ita et Saul vestem prophetæ. Per utramque enim potestatem, regalem scilicet et sacerdotalem, scissio facta monstrat regnum Judæorum et sacerdotium stare non posse, quia verum regem et sacerdotem, id est Christum, noluerant recipere. RAB. ex Aug. Iste cui dixit, etc., usque ad non secundum humani generis unam eamdemque naturam.
15.27Ille however. Sicut in passione Master pontifex vestimentum scidit, ita and Saul vestem prophetæ. Per utramque because potestatem, regalem scilicet and sacerdotalem, scissio facts monstrat kingdom Yudæorum and sacerdotium to_stand not/no posse, because verum regem and sacerdotem, id it_is Christum, noluerant recipere. RAB. from Aug. Iste cui dixit, etc., until to not/no after/second humani generis unam eamdemque naturam.
BrTrAnd Samuel turned his face to depart, and Saul caught hold of the skirt of his [fn]garment, and tore it.
God instructed Saul to “completely destroy” the Amalekites, who had ambushed the Israelites after the Exodus (see Exod 17:8-16; Deut 25:17-19). The Hebrew word kharam (“completely destroy”) often means dedicating something or someone completely to the Lord, either by destroying it (1 Sam 15:3; Josh 6:17-18) or by giving it as an offering (see Lev 27:28-29; Josh 6:19).
Complete destruction was called for in cases where those to be destroyed had committed a severe offense against God, such as worshiping false gods (Deut 7:1-6; 13:12-18). In 1 Samuel 15:3, complete destruction is prescribed as God’s judgment on a nation that mistreated his chosen people. Those who curse God’s family are, in turn, cursed (Gen 12:3).
God still judges the godless and impenitent. But in the new covenant, Christians are not called to be agents of such judgment. God calls us to exercise his mercy toward those who wrong us (see Luke 9:51-56). We must completely destroy whatever within ourselves wars against Christ (Rom 8:12-13; Col 3:5). And we must overcome the enemies of Christ by our faith, by the Good News, and by our love (Eph 6:10-20; 1 Jn 2:9-17). God will mete out judgment according to his justice and in his time (Rom 12:19; 2 Thes 1:6-10).
(Occurrence 0) Saul took hold of the hem of his robe
(Some words not found in UHB: and,turned Shəmūʼēl to=go and,caught_hold in/on/at/with,hem robe,his and,tore )
Saul did this to try to stop Samuel from leaving. This can be stated explicitly. Alternate translation: “Saul tried to stop him by grabbing the edge of Samuel’s robe”
(Occurrence 0) the hem of his robe
(Some words not found in UHB: and,turned Shəmūʼēl to=go and,caught_hold in/on/at/with,hem robe,his and,tore )
Alternate translation: “the edge of his robe” or “the fringe of his robe”
Saul’s war against the Amalekites exemplifies many of the key traits–good and bad–of Saul’s leadership over Israel. Immediately before the story is recounted, the author notes that during Saul’s entire reign he fought valiantly against Israel’s enemies on every side (1 Samuel 14:47-52), and he amassed an army of skilled soldiers. Thus, Saul fulfilled one of the primary reasons the people demanded that Samuel appoint a king over them (1 Samuel 8). Then the author notes that the Lord, through Samuel, directed Saul to attack the Amalekites and utterly destroy them and their belongings as punishment for their cruel attack on the Israelites after they left Egypt to travel to Mount Sinai (Exodus 17; Deuteronomy 25:17-19). So Saul mustered a large number of troops at a place called Telaim and traveled to an otherwise unknown “city of the Amalekites” and lay in lay in wait for them in a valley. Saul also warned the Kenites, the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law Hobab (also called Jethro), to move away from the Amalekites so they would not be killed in the coming battle. It appears that the Kenites had remained on good terms with the Israelites since the time of Hobab/Jethro and accompanied them as they entered the Promised Land, eventually settling among the Amalekites in the Negev near Arad (Judges 1:16). Saul defeated the Amalekites, pursuing them “from Havilah as far as Shur,” according the the Hebrew text. The region of Havilah, however, was several hundred miles from the Negev, making it unlikely to be the place to which Saul pursued them, and this is underscored by the Septuagint’s substitution of “Elath” for “Havilah”. It is possible that the author was using this phrase as a hyperbolic merism to indicate that Saul pursued the Amalekites throughout the entire land in which they lived (see also Genesis 25:18 regarding the Ishmaelites). But since elsewhere in Scripture the Amalekites are said to live in the Negev and in southern Canaan (Genesis 14:7; Numbers 13:29; 14:45; Judges 1:16), another possibility is that the “Havilah” reading is a textual corruption. The Septuagint translators may have preserved the original reading of “Elath,” or they may have been making their best guess as to the intended location. Simply based on the similarity of spelling and the geography of the region (as shown on this map), it is possible that the original reading was “Hachilah,” a hill where David would later have some close encounters with Saul during his time in the wilderness (1 Samuel 23:19; 26:1). In any case, Saul and his men thoroughly defeated the Amalekites, but they failed to completely destroy them (see 1 Samuel 30) and their belongings. Instead they took King Agag alive and kept the best of the spoils. After this Saul traveled to Carmel and set up a monument for himself, and then he continued on to Gilgal. When Samuel arrived in Gilgal, however, he was angry with Saul for failing to devote all of the Amalekites and their goods to destruction, and he told Saul that the Lord regretted having made him king. Samuel then killed King Agag himself at Gilgal and returned to his home in Ramah. Saul returned to his home in Gibeah, but Samuel never spoke with Saul again.
