Teks -- 1 Samuel 10:11 (NET)

10:11 When everyone who had known him previously saw him prophesying with the prophets, the people all asked one another, “What on earth has happened to the son of Kish? Does even Saul belong with the prophets?”

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Wesley: 1Sa 10:11 - Is Saul

A man never instructed, nor exercised in, nor inclined to these matters.

JFB: 1Sa 10:9-11 - when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart

Influenced by the words of Samuel, as well as by the accomplishment of these signs, Saul's reluctance to undertake the onerous office was overcome. The fulfilment of the two first signs [1Sa 10:7-8] is passed over, but the third is specially described. The spectacle of a man, though more fit to look after his father's cattle than to take part in the sacred exercises of the young prophets--a man without any previous instruction, or any known taste, entering with ardor into the spirit, and skilfully accompanying the melodies of the sacred band, was so extraordinary a phenomenon, that it gave rise to the proverb, "Is Saul also among the prophets?" (see 1Sa 19:24). The prophetic spirit had come upon him; and to Saul it was as personal and experimental an evidence of the truth of God's word that had been spoken to him, as converts to Christianity have in themselves from the sanctifying power of the Gospel.

TSK: 1Sa 10:11 - when all // one to another // What is this // Is Saul

when all : Joh 9:8, Joh 9:9; Act 3:10

one to another : Heb. a man to his neighbour

What is this : Mat 13:54, Mat 13:55; Act 2:7, Act 2:8, Act 4:13, Act 9:21

Is Saul : 1Sa 19:24; Joh 7:15

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Poole: 1Sa 10:11 - What is this that is come unto the son of Kish?

What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? what means this strange and prodigious event? Saul; a man never instructed nor exercised in nor inclined to these matters; a man ever thought fitter to look to his father’ s asses, than to bear a part in the sacred exercises of the prophets.

Haydock: 1Sa 10:11 - Prophets

Prophets. This proverb received a fresh confirmation, when Saul was going to seize David, and was forced by the Spirit to join with the college of prophets, in singing God's praises, chap. xix. 24. (Haydock) ---

It may be applied to those who are unexpectedly raised to a high dignity, or enabled to speak or to do extraordinary things, like the apostles, when they spoke various languages &c. (Delrio adag. 178.) (Calmet)

Gill: 1Sa 10:11 - And it came to pass, that when all that knew him before time // saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets // what is this that is come unto the son of Kish // is Saul also among the prophets

And it came to pass, that when all that knew him before time,.... As there must be many that personally knew him, and were acquainted with him, since Gibeah, the place he was near to, was his native place:

saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets; or praised among them, as the Targum, sung psalms and hymns with them:

what is this that is come unto the son of Kish? a rustic, a plebeian, that never was in the school of the prophets, or learned music, and yet is as dexterous at it as any of them:

is Saul also among the prophets? an husbandman, an herdsman that looked after his father's farms, fields, and cattle, and now among the prophets of the Lord, bearing his part with them, and performing it as well as any of them: this was matter of wonder to those who knew his person, family, and education; and so it was equally matter of admiration that Saul the persecutor, one of the same tribe, should be among the preachers of the Gospel, Act 9:20.