London: C. J. CLAY AND SONS,
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE,
AVE MARIA LANE.

and Colleges.

GENERAL EDITOR:-J. J. S. PEROWNE, D.D.,

BISHOP OF WORCESTER.

43751

THE FIRST BOOK

OF

SAMUEL,

WITH MAP, NOTES AND INTRODUCTION

BY THE

REV. A. F. KIRKPATRICK, B.D.

FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND REGIUS

PROFESSOR OF HEBREW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

EDITED FOR THE SYNDICS OF THE UNIversity press

Cambridge :

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

1891

[All Rights reserved.]

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MOSES and AARON among His priests,

And SAMUEL among them that call upon His Name:
They called upon the LORD and He answered them.

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PREFACE

BY THE GENERAL EDITOR.

THE General Editor of The Cambridge Bible for Schools thinks it right to say that he does not hold himself responsible either for the interpretation of particular passages which the Editors of the several Books have adopted, or for any opinion on points of doctrine that they may have expressed. In the New Testament more especially questions arise of the deepest theological import, on which the ablest and most conscientious interpreters have differed and always will differ. His aim has been in all such cases to leave each Contributor to the unfettered exercise of his own judgment, only taking care that mere controversy should as far as possible be avoided. He has contented himself chiefly with a careful revision of the notes, with pointing out omissions, with