Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.
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Gill's Exposition
And all the people went to Gilgal,.... Agreed to the motion, and marched along with Saul and Samuel thither:
and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal; that is, they declared him to be…
Barnes' Notes
Let us go to Gilgal - i. e., to Gilgal by Jericho, where was a famous sanctuary, in the tribe of Benjamin.
Adam Clarke
Renew the kingdom - The unction of Saul, in the first instance, was a very private act; and his being appointed to be king was not known to the people in general. He had now shown himself worthy to…
We have here the improvement of the glorious victory which Saul had obtained, not the improvement of it abroad, though we take it for granted that the men of Jabesh-Gilead, having so narrowly saved…
Cambridge Bible
Then said Samuel From this verse to 1Sa 12:22 is the Haphtarahor lesson from the Prophets appointed to be read in the Synagogue in conjunction with the history of Korah (Numbers 16).
to Gilgal See…
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