What does 1 Samuel 24:18 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had deliverede me into thine hand, thou killedst me not."
CHAPTER 24 _ 1. In the wilderness of En-gedi (1 Samuel 24:1)_ 2. David's words to Saul (1 Samuel 24:9) 3. Saul's answer to David (1 Samuel 24:16) Saul continues in the pursuit of David and with 300...
1 SAMUEL 24. DAVID SPARES SAUL AT ENGEDI (E). Chs. 24 and 26 give two versions of the same story, located at different places. Probably both versions are early. It is not clear which is the earlier, b...
Saul's momentary remorse 16. _my son David_ The old fatherly feeling revived. The generous loving heart of the old days had not yet utterly perished....
_Saul Accepts David's Plea._ 1 Samuel 24:16-22 16 And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, _Is_ this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted...
DAVID SPARES SAUL'S LIFE AT ENGEDI We have a similar incident narrated in 1 Samuel 26, and some critics hold that the two are merely varying accounts of the same event. But it. is to be noticed that...
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 24 DAVID REFUSES TO KILL SAUL V1 When Saul had finished fighting the *Philistines he returned home. Someone told him that David was in the des...
_[1 Samuel 24:19]_ _וְ_†_אַתָּה֙_† הִגַּ֣דְתָּ הַ יֹּ֔ום אֵ֛ת אֲשֶׁר ־עָשִׂ֥יתָה אִתִּ֖י טֹובָ֑ה אֵת֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר סִגְּרַ֧נִי
CHAPTER XXXI. _ DAVID TWICE SPARES THE LIFE OF SAUL._ 1 Samuel 24:1; 1 Samuel 26:1. THE invasion of the Philistines had freed David from the fear of Saul for a time, but only for a time. He knew ful...
KINDNESS WAKENS A BETTER SPIRIT 1 Samuel 24:16; 1 Samuel 25:1 David's noble self-restraint, followed as it was by no less noble words, awoke the best side of Saul's nature. Chords began to vibrate th...
At last Saul was in David's power. It would have been perfectly easy for him to have taken his life. He did not do so, but, withholding his hand, uttered a strong protest against Saul's persecution. T...
(16) В¶ And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept. (17) And he said to...
We enter now on a portion of David's history sensibly different from what we have already had, which closed with the efforts of Jonathan to restore matters and to attach Saul to him at least openly. J...
"And David went up and dwelt in the strongholds of Engedi." Saul pursues him thither, after following the Philistines, more occupied with his jealousy of the king whom God had chosen than with the ene...
AND THOU HAST SHOWED THIS DAY HOW THAT THOU HAST DEALT WELL WITH ME,.... The cutting off of the skirt of his robe only, when his life was in his hand, was a clear proof and full demonstration of his d...
And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not. Ver. 18. _And thou hast showed this day._] Saul...
_Thou art more righteous than I_ He ingenuously acknowledges David's integrity and his own iniquity. _If a man find his enemy, will he let him go?_ That is, he will certainly destroy him to save himse...
1 Dauid in a caue at Engedi, hauing cut off Sauls skirt, spareth his life. 8 Hee sheweth thereby his innocencie. 16 Saul acknowledging his fault, taketh an oath of Dauid, and departeth. 1 AND it ca...
SAUL ACKNOWLEDGES HIS FAULT...
Having 600 men with him, David could not easily be hidden, and Saul gets the report of his being in the wilderness of En-gedi. Not being exactly a brave man himself, Saul required 3000 chosen men of I...
DELIVERED: _ Heb._ shut up...
16-22 Saul speaks as quite overcome with David's kindness. Many mourn for their sins, who do not truly repent of them; weep bitterly for them, yet continue in love and in league with them. Now God ma...
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1 Samuel 24:18 shown H5046 (H8689) day H3117 dealt H6213 (H8804) well H2896 LORD H3068 delivered H5462 (H8765) hand H3027 kill H2026 (H8804) Lord - 1 Samuel 24:10, 1 Samuel 23:7, 1 Samuel
DAVID REVEALS HIMSELF TO SAUL AND DEMONSTRATES THAT HE HAS PROVED BY HIS RESTRAINT IN NOT KILLING HIM THAT HE IS TOTALLY LOYAL TO HIM (1 SAMUEL 24:8). Once Saul had left the cave David boldly reveale...
CONTENTS: David's mercy to Saul in En-gedi. CHARACTERS: God, David, Saul. CONCLUSION: Be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good. KEY WORD: Mercy (dealt well), 1 Samuel 24:18. STRONG VERS...
1 Samuel 24:1. _En-gedi_ was adjacent to the dead sea. Strabo, speaking of the caverns in Syria and Iturea, says, there is one which will hold four thousand men. _Lib. 16._ 1 Samuel 24:3. _Saul went...
_Where was a cave and Saul went in _. .. _ and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave._ SAUL AND DAVID IN THE CAVE Saul’s animosity is a fire that finds constant fuel. No sooner are the...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 24:1 The three episodes in the next three chapters all have the same theme: David, who as a warrior has already killed many of the Lord’s enemies, should not kill for his own...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 24:16. “AND SAUL LIFTED UP HIS VOICE.” “There is no hypocrisy or pretence here. Saul, tossed powerless hither and thither by fierce passions and without harmon...
DAVID IN THE WILDERNESS OF ENGEDI (1Sa 23:29 -35-24). EXPOSITION DAVID SPARES SAUL'S LIFE IN A CAVE (1 Samuel 24:1). 1 SAMUEL 24:1 THE WILDERNESS OF EN-GEDI. Finding no safety on the western side o...
Now it came to pass, when Saul was returned from the Philistines, they told him, David's in Engedi. So Saul took three thousand of his chosen men out of all of Israel, they went to seek David and his...
1 Samuel 23:12; 1 Samuel 23:7; 1 Samuel 24:10; 1 Samuel 26:23; 1 Samuel 26:8; Psalms 31:8...