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1 Samuel 16:14

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the Spirit: 1 Samuel 11:6, 1 Samuel 18:12, 1 Samuel 28:15; Judges 16:29; Psalms 51:11; Hosea 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. 1 Samuel 18:10, 1 Samuel 19:9-10; Judges 9:23; 1 Kings 22:22; Acts 19:15-16

troubled: or, terrified

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