Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
1 Samuel 24:17
And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I; for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil. The evidence before his eyes forced Saul to make at least this acknowledgment.
And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I; for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil. The evidence before his eyes forced Saul to make at least this acknowledgment.
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 w
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 de...
_[1 Samuel 24:18]_ וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ אֶל ־דָּוִ֔ד צַדִּ֥יק...
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...
_Voice. He was at such a distance, as not to be able to distinguish his features. --- Wept. The greatest reprobates may sometimes feel sentiments of compunction, so that we need not here doubt of Saul...
(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 HE SAID TO DAVID, THOU [ART] MORE RIGHTEOUS THAN I,.... By which it appears he thought himself righteous, though David was more so; the righteousness of David was so glaring, that his enemy himsel...
And he said to David, Thou [art] more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil. Ver. 17. _Thou art more righteows than I._] This is a great mercy of God, an...
_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...
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...
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...
THOU HAST REWARDED ME GOOD for the evil that I have designed and done to thee. I HAVE REWARDED THEE EVIL for thy good will to me....
1 Samuel 24:17 said H559 (H8799) David H1732 righteous H6662 rewarded H1580 (H8804) good H2896 rewarded H1580 ...
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 revealed...
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 VERSE...
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 i...
_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 harmony...
DAVID IN THE WILDERNESS OF ENGEDI (1Sa 23:29 -35-24). EXPOSITION DAVID SPARES SAUL'S LIFE IN A CAVE (1 Samuel 24:1)....
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 26:21; Exodus 9:27; Genesis 38:26; Matthew 27:4; Matthew 5:44
More righteous than I — He ingenuously acknowledges David's integrity, and his own iniquity....