Moreover the LORD will deliver Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. The LORD will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 19. To-morrow. Usher supposes some days afterwards. But all might take place the day after this was spoken. Calmet.—Sons, except Isboseth, who enjoyed, for a time, part of his father’s kingdom. Bible.—With me. That is, in the state of the dead, and in another world, though not in the same place. Challoner.—Saul was guilty of suicide, so that he could not be with Samuel in happiness, (Calmet. 31:4. Tirinus.) though he was in the other world. Worthington.—See Saint Augustine ad Simp. ii. 3. Cura pro mort. c. xv. S. Justin. Dial. Origen, and so forth