1 Samuel 16:2
How can I go.Ex 3:11; 1Ki 18:9-14; Mt 10:16; Lu 1:34Take an heifer.For the prudent management of the affair, and to avoid suspicion, Samuel was directed to go to Bethlehem to sacrifice, as he probably did from time to time in many different places; and the answer which he was instructed to return was strictly true though he did not tell the principal design of his coming; for though no man in any circumstances should tell a lie, yet, in all circumstances, he is not bound to tell the whole truth, though he must tell nothing but the truth, and so tell that truth that the hearer shall not believe a lie by it. with thee. Heb. in thine hand.9:12I am come.9:12; 20:29; Jer 38:26,27Proverbs 21:27
sacrifice.15:8; 28:9; 1Sa 13:12,13; 15:21-23; Ps 50:8-13; Isa 1:11-16; 66:3Jer 6:20; 7:11,12; Am 5:21,22with a wicked mind. Heb. in wickedness.Mt 23:14Isaiah 58:4
ye fast.1Ki 21:9-13; Pr 21:27; Mt 6:16; 23:14; Lu 20:47; Joh 18:28and to smite.Ac 23:1,2; Php 1:14,15shall not fast as ye do this day. or, fast not as this day.to make. Joe 2:13,14; Jon 3:7; Mt 6:16-18Matthew 2:8
go.1Sa 23:22,23; 2Sa 17:14; 1Ki 19:2; Job 5:12,13; Ps 33:10,11Pr 21:30; La 3:37; 1Co 3:19,20that.26:48,49; 2Sa 15:7-12; 2Ki 10:18,19; Ezr 4:1,2; Ps 12:2,3Ps 55:11-15; Pr 26:24,25; Jer 41:5-7; Lu 20:20,21Matthew 23:14
for ye.Josephus says that this sect pretended to a more exact knowledge of the law, on which account the women were subject to them, as pretending to be dear to God. Ex 22:22-24; Job 22:9; 31:16-20; Mr 12:40; Lu 20:47; 2Ti 3:6Tit 1:10,11; 2Pe 2:14,15long.That these were long we learn from Bab. Berachoth, where we are told that the very religious prayed nine hours a day. therefore.33-36; 11:24; Lu 12:48; Jas 3:1; 2Pe 2:3
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