1 Samuel 16:14
After the Spirit of the Lord had departed from Saul, a spirit of distress from the Lord began to torment him.
Note Or a harmful spirit; similarly in verses 15, 16, and 23
But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
Note troubled: or, terrified
Now the Lord’s Spirit departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
Now the Spirit of Jehovah departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Jehovah troubled him.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the Spirit
- 1 Samuel 11:6; 1 Samuel 18:12; 1 Samuel 28:15; Judges 16:29; Psalm 51:11; Hosea 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.
- 1 Samuel 18:10; 1 Samuel 19:9, 10; Judges 9:23; 1 Kings 22:22; Acts 19:15, 16