the Spirit: 1Sa 11:6, 1Sa 18:12, 1Sa 28:15, Jdg 16:29, Psa 51:11, Hos 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. 1Sa 18:10, 1Sa 19:9, 1Sa 19:10, Jdg 9:23, 1Ki 22:22, Act 19:15, Act 19:16 troubled: or, terrified Reciprocal: Num 27:18 - a man Deu 28:28 - General Jdg 6:34 - the Spirit Jdg 16:20 - the Lord 1Sa 16:23 - the evil spirit 1Sa 17:31 - sent for him 1Sa 26:19 - stirred 2Sa 7:15 - as I took Psa 36:3 - he hath