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The woman came to Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said to him, Behold, your handmaid has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.
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A Surprising Glimpse of Pity
Commentators note the unexpected compassion shown by the medium of Endor. Despite her sinful profession, she is moved with pity for King Saul's profound distress. Her kind words and actions to comfort and strengthen him reveal a human side, suggesting she was not a malicious trickster but a woman who was herself terrified by the events and saddened by their effect on the king.
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19th Century
Anglican
And the woman. —The story is completed in these few concluding verses (1 Samuel 28:21–25) in a most natural and unaffected sty…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the woman came unto Saul Having left him and the apparition in a room by themselves to converse together, and pe…
Presbyterian
Those who expect any good counsel or comfort, other than from God and in the way of His ordinances, will be as wretchedly disappointed as Saul. Tho…
