* the Spirit.
# 11:6; 18:12; 28:15; Jud 16:29; Ps 51:11; Ho 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.
# 18:10; 19:9,10; Jud 9:23; 1Ki 22:22; Ac 19:15,16|
* troubled. or, terrified.
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