| I Samuel 7:15
| And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life:
| Life; as sole judge for twenty years, (Gordon; Du Hamel) and conjointly with Saul till he died, almost 100 years old, a year or two before the unfortunate king. Saul put him on a level with himself; (chap. 11:7.) and he continued to be regarded as the oracle of Israel ever since he was about forty years old; (Calmet) or he did not long survive the election of the new king, (Menochius) as Tirinus, Sanctius, etc., reduce his reign to two years, allowing thirty-eight to Samuel, so that both filled up the space of forty years, Acts 13:20. The life of Samuel, on this supposition, will not much exceed sixty, and he must have come into power in early life, 1 Kings 12:2. (Haydock) --- This verse is no proof that the present book was written long after Samuel's time. (Du Hamel)
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