Treasury Of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Samuel 16:14 - 16:14

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Treasury Of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Samuel 16:14 - 16:14


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the Spirit: 1Sa 11:6, 1Sa 18:12, 1Sa 28:15; Jdg 16:29; Psa 51:11; Hos 9:12

evil spirit: The evil spirit was either sent immediately from the Lord, or permitted to come; but whether this was a diabolic possession, or a mere mental malady, is not agreed. It seems to have partaken of both. That Saul had fallen into a deep melancholy, there is little doubt; and that an evil spirit might work more effectually on such a state of mind, there can be little question. His malady appears to have been of a mixed kind, natural and diabolical. There is too much of apparent nature in it to permit us to believe it was all spiritual; and there is too much of apparently supernatural influence, to suffer us to believe it was all natural. 1Sa 18:10, 1Sa 19:9-10; Jdg 9:23; 1Ki 22:22; Act 19:15-16

troubled: or, terrified