Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Samuel 16:4

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Samuel 16:4 - 16:4

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Samuel 16:4 - 16:4

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

16:1 - 16:1
16:2 - 16:2
16:3 - 16:3
16:4 - 16:4
16:5 - 16:5
16:6 - 16:6
16:11 - 16:11
16:12 - 16:12
16:13 - 16:13
16:14 - 16:14
16:19 - 16:19
16:20 - 16:20
16:21 - 16:21
16:23 - 16:23

the elders of the town trembled at his coming - Beth-lehem was an obscure town, and not within the usual circuit of the judge. The elders were naturally apprehensive, therefore, that his arrival was occasioned by some extraordinary reason, and that it might entail evil upon their town, in consequence of the estrangement between Samuel and the king.