1 Samuel 10:18

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and he said to the children of Israel, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you:
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and he said to the children of Israel, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you:
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he said to the sons of Israel, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: ‘I myself brought up Israel from Egypt. And I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all of the kingdoms oppressing you.’

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and he said to the children of Israel, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you:
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    and said to the Israelites, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the hands of the Egyptians and of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    and said to the Israelites, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the hands of the Egyptians and of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and he said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you:
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and he said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And he saide vnto the children of Israel, Thus saith ye Lord God of Israel, I haue brought Israel out of Egypt, and deliuered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the handes of all kingdomes that troubled you.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And he said to the children of Israel: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of all the kings who afflicted you.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and saith unto the sons of Israel, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, I have brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I deliver you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms who are oppressing you;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and says to the sons of Israel, “Thus said YHWH, God of Israel: I have brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I deliver you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms who are oppressing you;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    He said to the people of Israel, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel says: 'I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.'
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he said to the sons of Israel, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: ‘I myself brought up Israel from Egypt. And I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all of the kingdoms oppressing you.’
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And he said to the children of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, *I* brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you;
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    and he said to the children of Israel, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And said to the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    He told the Israelites, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I led Israel out of Egypt, and I saved you from the Egyptians and from all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And he said to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I took Israel out of Egypt, and made you free from the hands of the Egyptians and from all the kingdoms which kept you down:
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And he said unto the children of Israel: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.

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הַלֹּחֲצִ֖ים
lâchats
H3905
“the · oppressing”
Particle, Definite Article + Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
Part of Speech
Particle + Verb
Stem
Qal
Form
Participle Active
Gender
Masculine
Number
Plural
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1106

to squeeze, press, oppress - (Qal) - to squeeze, press - to oppress - (Niphal) to squeeze oneself
  1. וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ʼâmar H559 “and · to say” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
  3. בְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  4. יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
  5. כֹּֽה kôh H3541 “thus” Adverb
  6. אָמַ֤ר ʼâmar H559 “to say” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  7. יְהוָה֙ Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  8. אֱלֹהֵ֣י ʼĕlôhîym H430 “God(s) of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  9. יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
  10. אָנֹכִ֛י ʼânôkîy H595 “I” Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
  11. הֶעֱלֵ֥יתִי ʻâlâh H5927 “to go up” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular
  12. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  13. יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
  14. מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם Mitsrayim H4714 “from · Egypt” Preposition + Noun, Proper
  15. וָאַצִּ֤יל nâtsal H5337 “and · to rescue” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular
  16. אֶתְכֶם֙ ʼêth H853 “- · you” Particle, Direct Object + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
  17. מִיַּ֣ד yâd H3027 “from · hand of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
  18. מִצְרַ֔יִם Mitsrayim H4714 “Egypt” Noun, Proper
  19. וּמִיַּד֙ yâd H3027 “and · from · hand of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
  20. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  21. הַמַּמְלָכ֔וֹת mamlâkâh H4467 “the · kingdoms” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
  22. אֶתְכֶֽם ʼêth H853 “- · you” Particle, Direct Object + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural

About this verse

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23
words
16
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is הַלֹּחֲצִ֖ים to oppress H3905 — appearing just 19 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַלֹּחֲצִ֖ים to oppress H3905 occurs in 18 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 5 verbs
  • 12 nouns
  • 1 pronoun
  • 1 preposition
  • 1 adverb
  • 3 particles

Verb forms

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • אָמַ֤ר Qal · Perfect
  • הֶעֱלֵ֥יתִי Hiphil · Perfect
  • וָאַצִּ֤יל Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
  • הַלֹּחֲצִ֖ים Qal · Participle Active

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל Israel H3478 ×3
  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶר to say H559 ×2
  • מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם Egypt H4714 ×2
  • מִיַּ֣ד hand H3027 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 45 words from the Hebrew and 49 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 23 Hebrew tokens and 35 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to 1 Samuel 10:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Judges 6:8–9 that Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel: and he said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
  • Judges 2:1 The angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you:
  • Nehemiah 9:27–28 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.
  • Nehemiah 9:9–12 You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Samuel 10:18 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֶל בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל כֹּֽה אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אָנֹכִ֛י הֶעֱלֵ֥יתִי אֶת יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם וָאַצִּ֤יל אֶתְכֶם֙ מִיַּ֣ד מִצְרַ֔יִם וּמִיַּד֙ כָּל הַמַּמְלָכ֔וֹת הַלֹּחֲצִ֖ים אֶתְכֶֽם

and he said to the children of Israel, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you:

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Samuel 10:18 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἶπον πρός υἱός ἰσραήλ ὅδε εἶπον κύριος ὁ θεός ἰσραήλ λέγω ἐγώ ἀναἄγω ὁ υἱός ἰσραήλ ἐκ αἴγυπτος καί ἐκαἱρέω σύ ἐκ χείρ φαραώ βασιλεύς αἴγυπτος καί ἐκ πᾶς ὁ βασιλεία ὁ θλίβω σύ

And he said to the children of Israel, Thus has the Lord God of Israel spoken, saying, I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, and I rescued you out of the hand of Pharao king of Egypt, and out of all the kingdoms that afflicted you.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וַאֲמַר לִבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל כִּדְנַן אָמַר יְיָ אֱלָהָא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל אֲנָא אַסְקֵית יַת יִשְׂרָאֵל מִמִצְרַיִם וְשֵׁיזְבִית יַתְכוֹן מִידָא דְמִצְרָאֵי וּמִיַד כָּל מַלְכְּוָתָא דְדַחֲקִין יַתְכוֹן:

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    Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on 1 Samuel 10:18 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Sa 10:18 And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, [and] of them that oppressed you:

Ver. 18. I brought up Israel out of Egypt.] See Jdg 2:1; Jdg 6:8. {See Trapp on "Jdg 2:1"} {See Trapp on "Jdg 6:8"} There is some great matter of unkindness in it, when God hitteth men in the teeth with his former favours.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

10:18 rescued you . . . from all of the nations: Israel did not need a human king to rescue them; they needed God, but they had rejected him (10:19).

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 18. I brought up Israel out of Egypt] These are similar to the upbraidings in 1Sa 8:7, &c.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(18) Thus saith the Lord.—Before proceeding to the election, Samuel again reminds Israel of its folly and ingratitude in their voluntarily rejecting the glorious Eternal King for an earthly sovereign. It was perfectly true that, under the present circumstances of Israel, the establishment of a mortal king was needful for the development of the Hebrew power, but it was none the less true that such a change in the Hebrew constitution would never have been necessary had not the nation forsaken their own Eternal Sovereign, who in time past had saved them out of far greater perils than any then threatening them. Now a change in the government of Israel was necessary, therefore God gave them their desire; but the change would involve the loss for ever of the higher blessedness for which the people had shown itself utterly unworthy.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

18. I brought up Israel] It was I who brought up Israel. The pronoun is emphatic, in contrast to and ye with which 1Sa_10:19 begins.

out of the hand of all kingdoms, [and of them] that oppressed you] Rather, out of the hand of all the Kingdoms that oppressed you. The reference is to the deliverances recorded in the Book of Judges.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And ye have this day rejected your God,.... As their king, by desiring another to be set over them:

who himself saved you out of all your adversity and your tribulations; that they had been in at any time in Egypt, in their passage through the wilderness to Canaan, and after they were settled there:

ye have said unto him, nay, but set a king over us: they did as good as say God should not be their King, but they would have one set over them like the kings of the nations about them; Samuel reminds them of this their request and resolution to have a king, which they had expressed some time ago, that it might appear to them that this was wholly of their own seeking; the motion came from themselves, and not from the Lord, nor from Samuel, and therefore, whatever ill consequences might follow upon it, they had none to blame but themselves:

now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes, and by your thousands; by the heads of their tribes, and by the rulers of the thousands into which their tribes were divided, that it might be known either by Urim and Thummim, or rather by casting lots, out of which tribe, and out of which thousand, house, and family in it, their king was to be chosen; which method, an it would clearly appear to be a choice directed by the Lord, so it would prevent all contention and discord among themselves.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Of all kingdoms, to wit, the neighbouring kingdoms, which molested you from time to time.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

And said... Samuel first points out in his address to the assembled people that Jehovah always had done for them the very thing for which they desired a king. They wished for deliverance from the Philistines, and Jehovah had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms that oppressed them (the A.V wrongly inserts "and of them"). But their deliverance by Jehovah had been made dependent upon their own conduct; they were required to repent them of their sins, and purge the land from idolatry, before victory could be theirs. What they wanted was national independence freed from this condition, and secured by an organisation of their military resources.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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1 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 23 words (16 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is lâchats (“to oppress”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “to oppress” (lâchats) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. Exodus 3:9 shares the word «to oppress» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “Israel” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. The verb «וַיֹּ֣אמֶר» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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