1Sa 16:2, Pro 21:27, Isa 58:4, Mat 2:8, 23:14 | TSK | STEP | How can I go. Take 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. I am come.

1 Samuel 16:2

How can I go.

Take 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.

9:12

I am come.

9:12; 20:29; Jer 38:26,27

Proverbs 21:27

sacrifice.

15:8; 28:9; 1Sa 13:12,13; 15:21-23; Ps 50:8-13; Isa 1:11-16; 66:3

Jer 6:20; 7:11,12; Am 5:21,22

with a wicked mind. Heb. in wickedness.

Mt 23:14

Isaiah 58:4

ye fast.

1Ki 21:9-13; Pr 21:27; Mt 6:16; 23:14; Lu 20:47; Joh 18:28

and to smite.

Ac 23:1,2; Php 1:14,15

shall not fast as ye do this day. or, fast not as this day.to make.

Joe 2:13,14; Jon 3:7; Mt 6:16-18

Matthew 2:8

go.

1Sa 23:22,23; 2Sa 17:14; 1Ki 19:2; Job 5:12,13; Ps 33:10,11

Pr 21:30; La 3:37; 1Co 3:19,20

that.

26:48,49; 2Sa 15:7-12; 2Ki 10:18,19; Ezr 4:1,2; Ps 12:2,3

Ps 55:11-15; Pr 26:24,25; Jer 41:5-7; Lu 20:20,21

Matthew 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 3:6

Tit 1:10,11; 2Pe 2:14,15

long.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