What Does 1 Samuel 28:19 Mean in the King James?
Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The repeated “deliver” comes from נתן, “give”: the verse names the LORD’s act as placing Israel into Philistine hands.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks in a hard register: the LORD gives Israel into Philistine power, and Saul is told that he and his sons will be with the speaker tomorrow. Death is not softened; divine judgment, enemy power, and imminent loss stand together in the sentence.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that divine deliverance always means being spared from danger: here the stated outcome is being handed into enemy power and facing death.
THE ROOT
יִתֵּן
yitten
GROWS FROM
נתן
To give, set, or place.
Twice, the verse uses יִתֵּן before “into the hand,” making the act a placing of Israel under Philistine power. The root lets “deliver” carry the force of transfer and exposure in this line.
ALSO GROWS
natan: To give, set, or place.
נָתַן
This is the verb’s dictionary form; it makes the verse’s act concrete as giving Israel over to another’s hand.
mattanah: Gift.
מַתָּנָה
The noun for a gift grows from the same root of giving; here, the surrounding words specify that what is given is exposed to hostile power.
THE PATTERN
Being given into another’s hand marks a transfer of power, exposing the given one to what that hand will do.
And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.THE THREAD
And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!Joshua names the possibility of being given into the Amorites’ hand; 1 Samuel uses the same root and hand-language to state that transfer as the coming outcome. The shared wording lets “deliver” be heard as placement under another’s power.
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