George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
1 Samuel 26:15
Israel. This was a cutting irony. (Calmet) --- Salien attributes to it the enmity which Abner bore to David for above seven years. (Menochius)
Israel. This was a cutting irony. (Calmet) --- Salien attributes to it the enmity which Abner bore to David for above seven years. (Menochius)
Verse 1 Samuel 26:15. ART _NOT THOU A_ VALIANT _MAN?_] This is a strong irony. _Ye_ are _worthy to die; ye are sons of death _- ye deserve death for this neglect of your king. And had not Saul been s...
This incidental testimony to Abner’s great eminence as a warrior is fully borne out by David’s dirge at Abner’s death 2 Samuel 3:31, 2 Samuel 3:38, as well as by his whole history. At the same time Da...
CHAPTER 26 _ 1. The Ziphites and Saul's pursuit (1 Samuel 26:1)_ 2. David again spares Saul (1 Samuel 26:5) 3. David's words to Abner (1 Samuel 26:13) 4. David's words to Saul ...
1 SAMUEL 26. DAVID SPARES SAUL IN THE WILDERNESS OF ZIPH (J). From one of the oldest sources (_cf._ on ch. 24). 1 SAMUEL 26:1 TO 1 SAMUEL 12:1 f. repeats briefly the substance and part of the wording...
MAN. Hebrew. _'ish,_ App-14. not. Hebrew. _'el._ (Hypothetical.)...
David's final expostulation with Saul 13. _a great space being between them_ This precaution indicates that David trusted Saul less now than upon the former occasion. Cp. 1 Samuel 26:22....
_a_[_valiant man_ Heb. simply, A MAN, i.e. one worthy of the name. _who is like to thee in Israel_ Abner was evidently the most powerful man in Saul's court. His course of action after Saul's death s...
DAVID SAID TO ABNER, ART NOT THOU, &C.— It may be asked, how could David make Abner and Saul hear, as it appears from the 13th verse that there was a great distance between them? The answer is easy. T...
_David Again Spares Saul. 1 Samuel 26:6-20_ 6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the...
_AND DAVID SAID TO ABNER, ART NOT THOU A VALIANT MAN? AND WHO IS LIKE TO THEE IN ISRAEL? WHEREFORE THEN HAST THOU NOT KEPT THY LORD THE KING? FOR THERE CAME ONE OF THE PEOPLE IN TO DESTROY THE KING TH...
DAVID SPARES SAUL'S LIFE A SECOND TIME 1. Hachilah] near the wilderness of Ziph: see 1 Samuel 23:19....
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 26 DAVID AGAIN REFUSES TO KILL SAUL V1 Some men from Ziph went to visit Saul at Gibeah. They said, ‘David is hiding on the hill of Hakilah whi...
A VALIANT MAN. — The English translators have rightly emphasised the Hebrew _ish_ here by rendering a “valiant” man. _Ish_ was used not unfrequently in this “nobler” sense; so in Psalms 49:2, when the...
וַ יֹּאמֶר֩ דָּוִ֨ד אֶל ־אַבְנֵ֜ר הֲ לֹוא
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...
FACING THE TRUTH AT LAST 1 Samuel 26:13 It is good to notice David's frequent references to the living Lord. See 1 Samuel 26:10; 1 Samuel 26:16;...
Once again we have the account of how David spared the life of Saul. There is no reason at all for the view that this is a repetition of the previous story. A quiet comparison of the two will show man...
And David said to Abner, [Art] not thou a [valiant] (f) man? and who [is] like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy th...
(13) В¶ Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them: (14) And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Ans...
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...
Alas! Saul is unchanged; instigated by the Ziphites, he seeks David anew, but it is only to fall again, and more publicly, into David's hands. Observe that David now appeals more directly to the Lord...
AND DAVID SAID TO ABNER, [ART] NOT THOU A [VALIANT] MAN?.... Or a man u, a man of great fame for courage and valour, a man of great authority, who had the next post in the army under Saul, but had not...
And David said to Abner, [Art] not thou a [valiant] man? and who [is] like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the ki...
_Wherefore hast thou not kept_, &c. Observed better military discipline for the preservation of the king's person? _There came one of the people_ Into the king's camp, and had a fair opportunity to de...
1 Saul by the discouery of the Ziphites, commeth to Hachilah against Dauid. 4 Dauid comming into the trench, stayeth Abishai from killing Saul, but taketh his speare and cruse. 13 Dauid reprooueth A...
Saul Overcome by David's Plea...
And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man, a warrior entrusted with the protection and security of the king? AND WHO IS LIKE TO THEE IN ISRAEL? WHEREFORE, THEN, HAST THOU NOT KEPT THE LORD,...
It seems tragically foolish on Saul's part that he should respond as he did to another message from the Ziphites to the effect that David was hiding in the hill country of Hachilah (v.1). He had told...
13-20 David reasoned seriously and affectionately with Saul. Those who forbid our attendance on God's ordinances, do what they can to estrange us from God, and to make us heathens. We are to reckon t...
WHO IS LIKE TO THEE, for courage and conduct? and therefore thy fault herein is the greater....
1 Samuel 26:15 David H1732 said H559 (H8799) Abner H74 man H376 Israel H3478 guarded H8104 (H8804) lord...
THE SECRET OF THE SUCCESS OF THEIR VENTURE AND DAVID'S REBUKE OF ABNER FOR FAILING TO WATCH OVER SAUL (1 SAMUEL 26:12). We now learn, in a verse which in one sense stands by itself, being itself centr...
CONTENTS: Saul spared by David a second time. CHARACTERS: God, David, Saul, Abishai, Abner, Ahimelech. CONCLUSION: No questionable means need be employed to help out God's plans for our advancement...
1 Samuel 26:5. _Saul lay in the trench._ Junius reads, “among the waggons;” the Vulgate, “He slept in the tent.” The Romans mostly fortified their camp; the Greeks did the same on the Trojan shore. 1...
_Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah._ THE REPROACH OF THE ENEMY Dr. Maclaren is specially emphatic in connecting Psalms 7:1 with this part of David’s history, and indicates its valu...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 26:1 This chapter resembles ch. 1 Samuel 24:1, but there are too many differences to think that they are simply different versions of the same event....
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— The fact that the incidents related in this chapter agree in some points with those narrated in Chapter s 23; 24 has led Ewald, Thenius, and others to conclude that the...
DAVID A SECOND TIME SPARES SAUL'S LIFE (1 Samuel 26:1.). EXPOSITION SAUL, ON INFORMATION FROM THE ZIPHITES, AGAIN SEEKS TO...
Let's turn in our Bibles to first Samuel, twenty-six, and let's begin our study of these final five Chapter s, six Chapter s. The wilderness of Ziph actually lies between Hebron and the area of the De...
1 Samuel 26:8...