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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comTreasury Of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Samuel 15:12 - 15:12
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Carmel: 1Sa 25:2; Jos 15:55; 1Ki 18:42
he set him: 1Sa 7:12; Jos 4:8-9; 2Sa 18:18
a place: Yad, Literally as the LXX render χειρα, a hand; probably because the trophy or monument of victory was in the shape of a large hand, the emblem of power, erected on a pillar. These memorial pillars were anciently much in use; and the figure of a hand, by its emblematical meaning, was well adapted to preserve the remembrance of a victory. Niebuhr, speaking of the Mesjed Ali, or Mosque of Ali, says that, "at the top of the dome, where one generally sees on the Turkish mosques a crescent, or only a pole, there is here a hand stretched out, to represent that of Ali." Another writer informs us, that at the Alhamra, or red palace of the Moorish kings in Grenada, "on the key-stone of the outward arch [of the present principal entrance] is sculptured the figure of an arm, the symbol of strength and dominion."