Verse Lens · Concise explanation
1 Samuel 25:1 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 1. 1And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
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Quick Meaning
Announces Samuel's death, national lament, burial, and David's movement.
Read It With
- 1 Samuel 24:16–25:9
Follow the scene from 1 Samuel 25:1, not verse 25:1 alone. This line announces Samuel's death, national lament, burial, and David's movement, and the surrounding movement is All Israel gathers to lament and bury Samuel at Ramah, and David goes down to the wilderness of Paran.
Why This Verse Appears Here
1 Samuel 25:1 belongs here because it announces Samuel's death, national lament, burial, and David's movement. Without that detail, the transition traced in 1 Samuel 25:1 would lose a stated action, speech, or consequence.
What Remains True
Announces Samuel's death, national lament, burial, and David's movement. Within 1 Samuel 25:1, this contribution supports the unit's enduring claim: The enduring claim is contextual rather than triumphal: All Israel gathers to lament and bury Samuel at Ramah, and David goes down to the wilderness of Paran. The brief notice does not make communal grief uniform, erase Samuel's failures, or imply that a leader's death ends the consequences of his work.
How It Can Shape Life
- Announces Samuel's death, national lament, burial, and David's movement. The proportionate response is therefore the one traced from the complete unit: Meet grief like the pain visible in “Samuel dies as David moves toward a moral test” with patient listening, practical care, truthful prayer, and access to appropriate support; do not promise the same outcome or explain suffering by blame. The brief notice does not make communal grief uniform, erase Samuel's failures, or imply that a leader's death ends the consequences of his work.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 1 Samuel 25:1 — Samuel dies as David moves toward a moral testSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: 1 Samuel 25:1, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Samuel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology, with the two KJV-Hebrew versification shifts stated rather than silently offset.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Sam.xml, OSIS 25:1; KJV 20:42 spans Hebrew 20:42–21:1, KJV 21:1–15 maps to Hebrew 21:2–16, KJV 23:29 maps to Hebrew 24:1, and KJV 24:1–22 maps to Hebrew 24:2–23
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: 1 Samuel
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Only the translator notes actually printed for these verses, used for lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, and older-English controls.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Notes, 1 Samuel PDF, printed pp. 504–543, exact tc/tn/sn entries attached to 25:1
Open source ↗