What Does 1 Samuel 10:27 Mean?

“But the children”

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or

“of Belial”

without profit, worthlessness; by extension, destruction, wickedness

“said”

to say (used with great latitude)

properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and

“How shall this man save”

properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e., (by implication) to be safe; causatively, to free or succor

the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that

“us And they despised”

to disesteem

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“him and brought”

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

“him no presents”

a donation; euphemistically, tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering (usually bloodless and voluntary)

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“But he held his peace”

to scratch, i.e., (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad