George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
1 Samuel 26:16
Death; i.e., you deserve to die. Such negligence was punishable with death, according to the Roman laws; & qui excubias. (Grotius)
Death; i.e., you deserve to die. Such negligence was punishable with death, according to the Roman laws; & qui excubias. (Grotius)
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...
NOT. Hebrew. _`al._ (Absolute.)...
_worthy to die_ Lit. _sons of death_. Cp. 1 Samuel 20:31....
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....
_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...
_THIS THING IS NOT GOOD THAT THOU HAST DONE. AS THE LORD LIVETH, YE ARE WORTHY TO DIE, BECAUSE YE HAVE NOT KEPT YOUR MASTER, THE LORD'S ANOINTED. AND NOW SEE WHERE THE KING'S SPEAR IS, AND THE CRUSE O...
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...
לֹא ־טֹ֞וב הַ דָּבָ֣ר הַ זֶּה֮ אֲשֶׁ֣ר
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...
(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...
THIS THING [IS] NOT GOOD THAT THOU HAST DONE,.... Yea, it was very bad, a great fault, and very blameworthy, if he had neglected to set a watch over the king, whose business it was as a general; the w...
This thing [is] not good that thou hast done. [As] the LORD liveth, ye [are] worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD'S anointed. And now see where the king's spear [is], and the...
_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...
This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the Lord liveth, ye are worthy to die, literally, "Sons of death are ye," BECAUSE YE HAVE NOT KEPT YOUR MASTER, THE LORD'S ANOINTED; they deserved death...
Saul Overcome by David's Plea...
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...
WORTHY TO DIE: _ Heb._ the sons of death...
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...
THIS THING IS NOT GOOD, i.e. it is very bad, a great crime. A figure called _meiosis_, as PROVERBS 18:5, PROVERBS 19:2....
1 Samuel 26:16 thing H1697 done H6213 (H8804) good H2896 LORD H3068 lives H2416 deserve H1121 die H4194 guarded
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....
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 26:16 YOU DESERVE TO DIE, BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT KEPT WATCH OVER YOUR LORD. David uses the plural “you.” He is accusing Saul’s men as a group....
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 20:31; 1 Samuel 24:6; 1 Samuel 26:11; 1 Samuel 26:9; 2