1 Samuel 16:2

2 Samuel, porém, disse: “Como poderei ir? Saul saberá disto e me matará”.O SENHOR disse: “Leve um novilho com você e diga que foi sacrificar ao SENHOR.

1 Samuel 16:2 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 16:2

And Samuel said, how can I go?
&c.] Which argues weakness of faith in Samuel, and fear of man, and a diffidence in and distrust of divine power; for otherwise he that sent him on such an errand could protect him:

if Saul hear it, he will kill me;
should hear that Samuel went and anointed another king, it would so enrage him, that he would either immediately lay hands on him, and put him to death, or order him to be put to death; and indeed were it not that this was done by the command of God, he would deserve to die; it being an overt act of treason to anoint another king:

and the Lord said, take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to
sacrifice to the Lord;
a peace offering, which might be done any where in those unsettled times, the ark being at one place, and the tabernacle at another; and might be offered upon a private altar, and by a private person; and as it seems Samuel used to sacrifice at different places; see ( 1 Samuel 7:9 ) ( 11:15 ) . Ben Gersom relates it as the sense of one of their Rabbins in his age, that there was a person slain in those parts, not known by whom he was slain; and so Samuel is ordered to take an heifer to fulfil the law in ( Deuteronomy 21:1-9 ) and therefore Saul would make no inquiry into his reason of going thither with an heifer, and this is commended both by him and Abarbinel.

1 Samuel 16:2 In-Context

1 O SENHOR disse a Samuel: “Até quando você irá se entristecer por causa de Saul? Eu o rejeitei como rei de Israel. Encha um chifre com óleo e vá a Belém; eu o enviarei a Jessé. Escolhi um de seus filhos para fazê-lo rei”.

2 Samuel, porém, disse: “Como poderei ir? Saul saberá disto e me matará”.O SENHOR disse: “Leve um novilho com você e diga que foi sacrificar ao SENHOR.

3 Convide Jessé para o sacrifício, e eu mostrarei a você o que fazer. Você irá ungir para mim aquele que eu indicar”.

4 Samuel fez o que o SENHOR disse. Quando chegou a Belém, as autoridades da cidade foram encontrar-se com ele, tremendo de medo, e perguntaram: “Vens em paz?”

5 Respondeu Samuel: “Sim, venho em paz; vim sacrificar ao SENHOR. Consagrem-se e venham ao sacrifício comigo”. Então ele consagrou Jessé e os filhos dele e os convidou para o sacrifício.