1 Samuel 16:15

15 dixeruntque servi Saul ad eum ecce spiritus Dei malus exagitat te

1 Samuel 16:15 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 16:15

And Saul's servants said unto him
His courtiers, who observing him to act in a frantic manner, to be dull and melancholy, timorous, and irresolute, unsteady, divided, and distressed; or his physicians, who were called in to assist him, and remove his disorder from him:

behold, now an evil spirit from God troubleth thee:
the disorder was not from any natural cause, or any bodily disease, and therefore out of the reach of physicians to do any service, but was from an evil spirit suffered of God to harass and disturb him.

1 Samuel 16:15 In-Context

13 tulit igitur Samuhel cornu olei et unxit eum in medio fratrum eius et directus est spiritus Domini in David a die illa et in reliquum surgensque Samuhel abiit in Ramatha

14 spiritus autem Domini recessit a Saul et exagitabat eum spiritus nequam a Domino

15 dixeruntque servi Saul ad eum ecce spiritus Dei malus exagitat te

16 iubeat dominus noster et servi tui qui coram te sunt quaerant hominem scientem psallere cithara ut quando arripuerit te spiritus Dei malus psallat manu sua et levius feras

17 et ait Saul ad servos suos providete mihi aliquem bene psallentem et adducite eum ad me