SEV Biblia, Chapter 28:18
Como tú no escuchaste la voz del SEŅOR, ni cumpliste el furor de su ira sobre Amalec, por eso el SEŅOR te ha hecho esto hoy.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 28:18
Verse 18. Nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek] See 1 Sam. xv. 1-9 and the notes there.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 18. Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the Lord , etc.] At Gilgal, as Abarbinel thinks; which is the first thing for which the kingdom was threatened to be taken from him, ( 1 Samuel 13:13,14); nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek : in sparing Agag, and the best of the cattle, ( 1 Samuel 15:9,28); therefore hath the Lord done this thing unto thee this day ; forsaken him, rent his kingdom from him, and would deliver him into the hands of the Philistines, as follows: had he been the true Samuel, he would have told him of some other sins of his, provoking to the Lord; as his slaughter of the priests at Nob, his cruel persecution of David, and especially of his asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit at this time, of which not a word is said, and yet was the very transgression for which Saul died, ( Chronicles 10:13,14).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-19 - When we go from the plain path of duty, every thing draws us furthe aside, and increases our perplexity and temptation. Saul desires the woman to bring one from the dead, with whom he wished to speak; thi was expressly forbidden, De 18:11. All real or pretended witchcraft of conjuration, is a malicious or an ignorant attempt to gain knowledge of help from some creature, when it cannot be had from the Lord in the path of duty. While Samuel was living, we never read of Saul's going to advise with him in any difficulties; it had been well for him if he had. But now he is dead, "Bring me up Samuel." Many who despise an persecute God's saints and ministers when living, would be glad to have them again, when they are gone. The whole shows that it was no huma fraud or trick. Though the woman could not cause Samuel's being sent yet Saul's inquiry might be the occasion of it. The woman's surpris and terror proved that it was an unusual and unexpected appearance Saul had despised Samuel's solemn warnings in his lifetime, yet no that he hoped, as in defiance of God, to obtain some counsel an encouragement from him, might not God permit the soul of his departe prophet to appear to Saul, to confirm his former sentence, and denounc his doom? The expression, "Thou and thy sons shall be with me," mean no more than that they shall be in the eternal world. There appear much solemnity in God's permitting the soul of a departed prophet to come as a witness from heaven, to confirm the word he had spoken of earth.
Original Hebrew
כאשׁר 834 לא 3808 שׁמעת 8085 בקול 6963 יהוה 3068 ולא 3808 עשׂית 6213 חרון 2740 אפו 639 בעמלק 6002 על 5921 כן 3651 הדבר 1697 הזה 2088 עשׂה 6213 לך יהוה 3068 היום 3117 הזה׃ 2088
