Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 9:1

1 Yǒu yī gè Biànyǎmǐn rén , míng jiào jī shì , shì Biànyǎmǐn rén yà fĕi yà de xuán sūn , bǐ gē là de céng sūn , xǐ luó de sūnzi , yà biéde érzi , shì gè dà néng de yǒng shì ( huò zuò dà cáizhǔ ) .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 9:1 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 9:1

Now there was a man of Benjamin
Of the tribe of Benjamin, which had its name from the youngest son of Jacob, and one of this tribe was the first king of Israel:

whose name was Kish:
whom the apostle calls Cis, ( Acts 13:21 ) , and Josephus ^F9 Cises; his name, according to Hillerus ^F11, signifies "ensnared"; for what reason it was given him is not certain:

the son of Abiel;
in ( 1 Chronicles 8:33 ) ( 9:39 ) , he is called Ner that begat Kish; and in this book, ( 1 Samuel 14:50 1 Samuel 14:51 ) Ner and Kish are represented as brethren, the sons of Abiel: to reconcile this, it may be observed, that Ner being the elder brother, on the death of his father Abiel, had the care and bringing up of his younger brother Kish; and therefore when he is said to beget him, the meaning is, not that he was the parent of him, but the bringer up of him; or rather, as Kimchi thinks, Abiel had two sons, one of which was Ner; and that he had two sons, one that was called after his own name Ner, who was the father of Abner; and the other Kish, the father of Saul:

the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite;
of these persons we nowhere else read:

a mighty man of power;
not a man of riches, or of authority, neither a wealthy man, nor a magistrate, for his family was mean and contemptible, ( 1 Samuel 9:21 ) ( 10:27 ) but a man of great strength, an able bodied man, and of great natural fortitude, and courage of mind.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Antiqu. l. 6. c. 4. sect. 1.
F11 Onomastic. Sacr. p. 405.

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 9:1 In-Context

1 Yǒu yī gè Biànyǎmǐn rén , míng jiào jī shì , shì Biànyǎmǐn rén yà fĕi yà de xuán sūn , bǐ gē là de céng sūn , xǐ luó de sūnzi , yà biéde érzi , shì gè dà néng de yǒng shì ( huò zuò dà cáizhǔ ) .

2 Tā yǒu yī gè érzi , míng jiào Sǎoluó , yòu jiànzhuàng , yòu jùnmĕi , zaì Yǐsèliè rén zhōng méiyǒu yī gè néng bǐ tāde . shēntǐ bǐ zhòng mín gāo guō yī tóu .

3 Sǎoluó de fùqin jī shì diū le jǐ tóu lü , tā jiù fēnfu érzi Sǎoluó shuō , nǐ daì yī gè púrén qù xúnzhǎo lü .

4 Sǎoluó jiù zǒu guō Yǐfǎlián shān dì , yòu guō shā lì s Hādì , dōu méiyǒu zhǎo zhe . yòu guō sHālín dì , lü yĕ bú zaì nàli . yòu guō Biànyǎmǐn dì , hái méiyǒu zhǎo zhe .

5 Dào le sū Fú dì , Sǎoluó duì gēnsuí tāde púrén shuō , wǒmen bù rú huí qù , kǒngpà wǒ fùqin bù wèi lü guà xīn , fǎn wèi wǒmen dān yōu .