After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:
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Gill's Exposition
After that thou shall come to the hill of God,.... The Targum is, the hill in which was the ark of the Lord, and that was in the house of Abinadab, on a hill in the city of Kirjathjearim, Sa1 7:1 and…
Barnes' Notes
Hill of God - Rather, “Gibeah” of God, and so in 1Sa 10:10. Two things are clear; “one” that Saul had got home when he got to Gibeah of God, for there he found his uncle, and no further journeying is…
Adam Clarke
The hill of God - The Targum says, "The hill on which the ark of the Lord was. Calmet supposes it to be a height near Gibeah.
The garrison of the Philistines - Probably they kept a watch on the top of…
Samuel is here executing the office of a prophet, giving Saul full assurance from God that he should be king, as he was afterwards, according to these prophecies which went before of him.
I. He…
Cambridge Bible
the hill of God Or, Gibeah of God. Gibeahis the term used to denote -the bald rounded hills of central Palestine." This eminence was distinguished as Gibeah of God, or God's hill, from the place of…
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