Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
1 Samuel 18:26
the days were not expired Apparently referring to some time which had been fixed for David to accept or decline the king's offer. The Sept. (B) omits the words.
the days were not expired Apparently referring to some time which had been fixed for David to accept or decline the king's offer. The Sept. (B) omits the words.
THE DAYS WERE NOT EXPIRED - David was so rapid in his attack upon the Philistines that he was able to bring the required dowry within the time, and to receive his wife (Michal), before the time had ex...
3. JONATHAN AND DAVID--SAUL'S JEALOUSY CHAPTER 18 _ 1. Jonathan's love for David (1 Samuel 18:1)_ 2. The beginning of Saul's jealousy (1 Samuel 18:5) 3. David's marriage (1 Samuel 18:17)...
1 Samuel 18:10 to 1 Samuel 19:17. SAUL'S PLOTS AGAINST DAVID. COMPILED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. 1 Samuel 18:10 f. (R). Saul makes an unsuccessful attempt to kill David. A premature duplicate of...
David the King's Son-in-law. 1 Samuel 18:17-30 17 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the Lord's battles. For S...
_AND WHEN HIS SERVANTS TOLD DAVID THESE WORDS, IT PLEASED DAVID WELL TO BE THE KING'S SON IN LAW: AND THE DAYS WERE NOT EXPIRED._ The days were not expired - the period within which this exploit was...
THE LOVE OF JONATHAN FOR DAVID 1 Samuel 18:6 of this chapter seem to be connected with 1 Samuel 16:14 and not to be taken from the same document as 1 Samuel 17:1 to...
AND THE DAYS WERE NOT EXPIRED] This appears to refer to the time, not previously mentioned, within which the exploit was to be performed....
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 18 V1 David finished talking with Saul. Jonathan, Saul’s son, became a very close friend with David. Jonathan loved David as much as he loved...
IT PLEASED DAVID WELL. — The king’s design succeeded well, and the prospect of the alliance with Saul spurred on this brave soldier to more daring achievements, and yet wilder feats of arms. The savag...
וַ יַּגִּ֨דוּ עֲבָדָ֤יו לְ דָוִד֙ אֶת ־הַ
CHAPTER XXV. _ SAUL'S JEALOUS-DAVID'S MARRIAGE._ 1 Samuel 18:1. THE conqueror of Goliath had been promised, as his reward, the eldest daughter of the king in marriage. The fulfillment of that promis...
PROSPERED IN SPITE OF PLOTS 1 Samuel 18:22 The affection of Michal for the young warrior suggested a way of luring David into personal conflict with the Philistines. Saul's secret hope was that he mi...
Here, in the account of Jonathan and David, begins one of the most perfect stories of love and friendship in the world. The story is all the more beautiful because of its dark background. Love is in i...
And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the (l) king's son in law: and the days were not expired. (l) Because he thought himself able to compass the king's request....
Now that we have heard the prophet's judgment of king Saul, there follows next the choice of Jehovah. The chapter gives us in a very striking manner the manifest sentence of death on all the thoughts...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18 AND 19. But when Christ makes Himself known, the remnant (which Jonathan represented) loves Him as his own soul, and this beloved one becomes the object of...
AND WHEN HIS SERVANTS TOLD DAVID THESE WORDS,.... That the king desired no other dowry than an hundred foreskins of the Philistines: IT PLEASED DAVID WELL TO BE THE KING'S SON IN LAW; on such conditi...
And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired. Ver. 26. _It pleased David well._] Saul's envy serveth but to enhance D...
_The days were not expired_ That is, the time allowed by Saul to David for the execution of this exploit. _Two hundred_ He doubled the number required; to oblige Saul the more to the performance of hi...
1 Ionathan loueth Dauid. 5 Saul enuieth his praise, 10 Seeketh to kill him in his furie, 12 Feareth him for his good successe, 17 Offereth him his daughters for a snare. 22 Dauid perswaded to be...
SAUL PLANS TO HAVE DAVID REMOVED...
And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law, especially since he was to win Michal by a heroic achievement; AND THE DAYS WERE NOT EXPIRED, that is,...
Jonathan, the son of Saul stands in refreshing contrast to his father. He was present when David returned to Saul. Doubtless David's victory had attracted Jonathan, but David's words decide him. When...
EXPIRED: _ Heb._ fulfilled...
12-30 For a long time David was kept in continual apprehension of falling by the hand of Saul, yet he persevered in meek and respectful behaviour towards his persecutor. How uncommon is such prudence...
IT PLEASED DAVID; as for other reasons, so especially because this opened the door to the kingdom which God had promised him. The days, i.e. the time allowed by Saul to David for the execution of this...
1 Samuel 18:26 servants H5650 told H5046 (H8686) David H1732 words H1697 pleased H3474 (H8799) H1697...
BOUND BY HIS PROMISE SAUL SEEKS TO FULFIL IT BY GIVING ONE OF HIS DAUGHTER'S TO DAVID TO BE HIS WIFE (1 SAMUEL 18:17). Saul had publicly promised that to the victor over Goliath he would give him one...
CONTENTS: Love covenant of Jonathan and David. Saul's jealousy and attempts on David's life. Saul's daughter given to David. CHARACTERS: God, David, Saul, Jonathan, Merab, Michal, Adriel. CONCLUSION:...
1 Samuel 18:4. _Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David._ This was the highest mark of favour he could show him, and it is still esteemed as such in the oriental...
_And Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul._ DAVID’S JEOPARDY Saul was afraid of David. This is most remarkable, for was not Saul the king, and David but...
_And Saul eyed David from that day and forward._ DAVID’S ENEMY-SAUL It is the enmity of Saul which we are to consider--its beginning, its rapid growth, its deadly purpose. The excitement of the war b...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 18:6 As David’s success increases, Saul’s jealousy also increases. ⇐ ⇔...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 18:5. “DAVID WENT OUT.” “That this refers to war and not to general business is plain, not only from the following account, which mentions not only military un...
PERSONAL RELATIONS OF SAUL AND DAVID (CHS. 18-27). FRIENDSHIP OF DAVID AND JONATHAN (CHS. 18-20). EXPOSITION JONATHAN LOVES DAVID ...
Now when it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan [Saul's son was just sort of] knit with the soul of David, Jonathan loved him as himself (1 Samuel 18:1...
1 Samuel 18:21...
The days — That is, the time allowed by Saul to David for the execution of this exploit....