Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Samuel 15:12

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Commentary on the Old Testament
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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The next morning, after receiving the revelation from God ( Sa1 15:11), Samuel rose up early, to go and meet Saul as he was returning from the war. On the way it was told him, "Saul has come to Carmel" - i.e., Kurmul, upon the mountains of Judah to the south-east of Hebron (see at Jos 15:55) \- "setting himself a memorial" (יד, a hand, then a memorial or monument, inasmuch as the hand calls attention to anything: see Sa2 18:18), "and has turned and proceeded farther, and gone down to Gilgal" (in the valley of the Jordan, as in Sa1 13:4). 1 Kings (1 Samuel) 15:13

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