So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
Ver. 7. So David and Abishai came.] Ahimelech belike durst not venture, or else David was willing to have but only one with him, for secrecy sake.
But Abner and the people lay round about him.] See on 1 Samuel 26:5 .
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...
SPEAR. This is still the mark of the chiefs tent. Compare 1 Samuel 18:10. BOLSTER. head....
_to the people_ i.e. to Saul's army. Cp. 1 Samuel 14:45. _his spear_ See on 1 Samuel 18:10. _at his bolster_ AT HIS HEAD; and so in 1 Samuel 26:11;...
Saul's life again in David's power 5. _in the trench_ See on 1 Samuel 17:20. The Sept. rendering "in a chariot" is a mistake....
SO DAVID AND ABISHAI CAME TO THE PEOPLE, &C.— This was a bold and hazardous undertaking, which would have been certain death to David had he been discovered. But David was bold and intrepid; and his a...
_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...
_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 CAMP? AND ABISHAI SAID, I WILL GO DOWN WITH...
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...
WITHIN THE TRENCH. — As above, in 1 Samuel 26:5, “within the barrier of the wagons.” HIS SPEAR... AT HIS BOLSTER. — “Bolster,” literally, _the place where his head is,_ better rendered _at his head;_...
וַ יָּבֹא֩ דָוִ֨ד וַ אֲבִישַׁ֥י ׀ אֶל ־הָ
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...
SPARING HIS ENEMY'S LIFE 1 Samuel 26:1 The Ziphites' treachery served as a foil to the intrinsic nobility of David's character. God made the wrath of man to praise Him, and restrained the remainder,...
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...
(5) And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the peo...
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...
SO DAVID AND ABISHAI CAME TO THE PEOPLE BY NIGHT,.... Josephus l wrongly says, that he took with him both Abishai and Ahimelech; he chose to have but one, for the greater secrecy. This was a bold ente...
_Ahimelech the Hittite_ A valiant man of that nation, who was a proselyte to the Jewish religion; and not only followed David, but was always near to his person. _Abishai_ Brother to Joab, the son of...
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...
So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, probably considering the bulwark of the wagons a sufficient safeguard, AND HIS SPEAR, the sign of ro...
David in Saul's Camp...
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...
1-12 How soon do unholy hearts lose the good impressions convictions have made upon them! How helpless were Saul and all his men! All as though disarmed and chained, yet nothing is done to them; they...
TO THE PEOPLE, i. e. to Saul's host and camp. It might seem a bold and strange attempt; but many things are to be considered: 1. That heroical persons have oft attempted things of no less difficulty...
1 Samuel 26:7 David H1732 Abishai H52 came H935 (H8799) people H5971 night H3915 Saul H7586 lay H7901 ...
DAVID PAYS A SECRET VISIT TO SAUL AND ENTERS HIS CAMP (1 SAMUEL 26:5). David then took two of his best men with him and went to an eminence from which he could observe Saul's camp, and from there he s...
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...
_Saul lay sleeping within the trench._ THE DANGER OF SPIRITUAL LETHARGY The circumstances of Saul, and the manner in which he was treated by David, may have a warning voice to unbelievers, careless,...
_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 Thessalonians 5:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:3...
Came — That is, to Saul's host. It might seem a bold and strange attempt; but it may be considered: That David had a particular assurance that God would preserve him to the kingdom. That he had a spec...