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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
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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_[1 Samuel 24:18]_ וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ אֶל ־דָּוִ֔ד
צַדִּ֥יק...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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(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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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SAUL ACKNOWLEDGES HIS FAULT...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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....
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1 Samuel 24:17 said H559 (H8799) David H1732 righteous H6662 rewarded
H1580 (H8804) good H2896 rewarded H1580 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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DAVID IN THE WILDERNESS OF ENGEDI (1Sa 23:29 -35-24).
EXPOSITION
DAVID SPARES SAUL'S LIFE IN A CAVE (1 Samuel 24:1)....
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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...
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1 Samuel 26:21; Exodus 9:27; Genesis 38:26; Matthew 27:4; Matthew 5:44
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More righteous than I — He ingenuously acknowledges David's
integrity, and his own iniquity....