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1 Samuele 28:16

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16 E Samuele disse: E perchè domandi me, poichè il Signore si è partito da te, e ti è diventato nemico?

1 Samuele 28:16 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 28:16

Then said Samuel, wherefore then dost thou, ask of me
Whom thou knowest to have been a prophet of the Lord, and therefore can say nothing more or less than what comes from him, and is according to his will, if anything at all; the "devil" representing Samuel, whom Saul had called for, and reasons in such language as might be thought to be his own, though sometimes he betrays himself:

seeing the Lord is departed from thee;
as Saul himself owned: to which he adds,

and is become thine enemy;
to make his case appear still more desperate; for his whole view is to lead him to despair, which shows what sort of spirit he was: though some understand this as spoken of David, and read the words, and "he is with thine enemy" F9; is on his side, and favours his cause; so the Targum,

``and he is for the help of a man, whose enmity thou sharest in;''

or who is at enmity with thee, meaning David; but now the true Samuel would never have said this, or suggested it, that David was an enemy to Saul, for he was not.


FOOTNOTES:

F9 (Kre yhyw) "et est cum inimico tuo", Pagninus, Vatablus; so V. L.
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1 Samuele 28:16 In-Context

14 Ed egli disse: Qual’è la sua forma? Ed ella disse: Ei sale fuori un uomo vecchio, il quale è avvolto di un mantello. E Saulle riconobbe ch’era Samuele; e s’inchinò con la faccia in terra, e gli fece riverenza.
15 E Samuele disse a Saulle: Perchè mi hai tu inquietato, facendomi salir fuori? E Saulle disse: Io son grandemente distretto; perciocchè i Filistei guerreggiano contro a me, e Iddio si è partito da me, e non mi risponde più, nè per profeti, nè per sogni; perciò ti ho chiamato, acciocchè tu mi dichiari ciò che ho da fare.
16 E Samuele disse: E perchè domandi me, poichè il Signore si è partito da te, e ti è diventato nemico?
17 Or il Signore ha fatto come egli ne avea parlato per me; ed ha stracciato il regno d’infra le tue mani, e l’ha dato a Davide, tuo famigliare.
18 Perciocchè tu non ubbidisti alla voce del Signore, e non mettesti ad esecuzione l’ira sua accesa contro ad Amalec; perciò il Signore ti ha oggi fatto questo.
The Giovanni Diodati Bible is in the public domain.

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