SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:2
Hoy, después que te hayas apartado de mí, hallarás dos varones junto al sepulcro de Raquel, en el término de Benjamín en Selsa, los cuales te dirán: Las asnas que habías ido a buscar, se han hallado; tu padre, pues , ha dejado ya el negocio de las asnas, si bien está angustioso por vosotros, diciendo: ¿Qué haré acerca de mi hijo?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 10:2
Verse 2. Rachel's sepulcher] This was nigh to Bethlehem. See Gen. xxxv. 19. At Zelzah] If this be the name of a place, nothing is known of it.
The Hebrew jxlxb betseltsach is translated by the Septuagint allomenouv megala, dancing greatly: now this may refer to the joy they felt and expressed on finding the asses, or it may refer to those religious exultations, or playing on instruments of music, mentioned in the succeeding verses.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 2. When thou art departed from me today , etc.] Not as soon as he was departed, for he had some few miles to go from Ramah to Rachel’s grave near Bethlehem: thou shalt find two men by Rachel’s sepulchre, in the border of Benjamin, at Zelzah ; the Jews move a difficulty here, that Rachel’s sepulchre should be said to be in the border of Benjamin, when it was by Bethlehemephrath, in the tribe of Judah, ( Genesis 35:19 Micah 5:2) and which they solve by observing, that these men were now, at the time Samuel was speaking, by the grave of Rachel, but as they were coming on he would meet them at Zelzah, in the border of Benjamin f196 ; but there is no need of this, Rachel’s grave was not at Bethlehem, but in, the way to it; and besides, as these two tribes were contiguous, and this city being on the borders of both, it might be said at one time to be in the border of Benjamin, and at another in the border of Judah, or in Judah, without any contradiction. Of Zelzah we nowhere else read, but it is plain it was near the sepulchre of Rachel, and perhaps nearer than Bethlehem. The Arabic geographer speaks of Rachel’s grave as in the midway between Jerusalem and Bethlehem; and says there were twelve stones upon it, and a stone arched vault over it; and the same is affirmed by Benjamin of Tudela f198 , who makes it to be but half a mile from Bethlehem. Jarchi would have Zelzah to be the same with Jerusalem, which is not probable: and they will say unto thee, the asses which thou wentest to seek are found ; as Samuel had before told Saul they were, ( 1 Samuel 9:20) and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses ; or had left all thoughts about them, and concern for them, not minding whether he heard of them or not, and this before they were found; or otherwise it would have been no strange thing to drop all thoughts about them, when they were found: and sorroweth for you ; for Saul, and his servant; such was the anxiety and distress of his mind lest any evil should befall them, having been gone so long in quest of the asses, that he had as it were forgot them, and lost all care and concern about them, in comparison of his son and servant; but especially his sorrow rose high for his son, as follows: saying, what shall I do for my son ? though he was concerned for his servant, yet most for his son; he might have another servant, and not another son, and Saul seems to be his only one, which made his grief for him the greater, (see 1 Chronicles 8:33 9:39). Now as these were contingent events here foretold, as meeting with two men at a certain place described, the words related expressly they should say to him when he met them, and these exactly coming to pass, would most clearly prove Samuel to be a true prophet, and confirm Saul in the belief of what he had said and done to him concerning the kingdom. Another sign follows.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-8 - The sacred anointing, then used, pointed at the great Messiah, or Anointed One, the King of the church, and High Priest of ou profession, who was anointed with the oil of the Spirit, not be measure, but without measure, and above all the priests and princes of the Jewish church. For Saul's further satisfaction, Samuel gives his some signs which should come to pass the same day. The first place he directs him to, was the sepulchre of one of his ancestors; there he must be reminded of his own mortality, and now that he had a crow before him, must think of his grave, in which all his honour would be laid in the dust. From the time of Samuel there appears to have bee schools, or places where pious young men were brought up in the knowledge of Divine things. Saul should find himself strongly moved to join with them, and should be turned into another man from what he ha been. The Spirit of God changes men, wonderfully transforms them. Saul by praising God in the communion of saints, became another man, but it may be questioned if he became a new man.
Original Hebrew
בלכתך 1980 היום 3117 מעמדי 5978 ומצאת 4672 שׁני 8147 אנשׁים 376 עם 5973 קברת 6900 רחל 7354 בגבול 1366 בנימן 1144 בצלצח 6766 ואמרו 559 אליך 413 נמצאו 4672 האתנות 860 אשׁר 834 הלכת 1980 לבקשׁ 1245 והנה 2009 נטשׁ 5203 אביך 1 את 853 דברי 1697 האתנות 860 ודאג 1672 לכם לאמר 559 מה 4100 אעשׂה 6213 לבני׃ 1121
