1 Samuel 16:15

15 Saul's attendants said to him, "An evil spirit that was sent by God is terrifying you.

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 So Samuel got the animal horn that was filled with olive oil. He anointed David in front of his brothers. From that day on, the Spirit of the LORD came on David with power. Samuel went back to Ramah.

14 The Spirit of the LORD had left Saul. And an evil spirit that was sent by the LORD terrified him.

15 Saul's attendants said to him, "An evil spirit that was sent by God is terrifying you.

16 Give us an order to look for someone who can play the harp. He will play it when the evil spirit that was sent by God comes on you. Then you will feel better."

17 So Saul said to his attendants, "Find someone who plays the harp well. Bring him to me."