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Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, turned, passed on, and went down to Gilgal.”
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Verse 12. Arch. Here we behold what a change prosperity makes in the manners of those who before shewed the greatest humility. Saul erects a monument to his own vanity. Hebrew “he has set him up a hand,” (as Absalom did, 2 Kennicott. 18:18) or “a place” to divide the booty, (Jonathan) or “a garrison,” to keep the country in subjection. Calmet.—Perhaps he erected the figure of “a hand,” as an emblem of strength, and in honour of Benjamin, “the son of the right hand,” of whose tribe he was. Bible.
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