Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
1 Samuel 24:3
Sheepcotes] These were rough, stone walls, built to protect the sheep from wild beasts. Thomson writes: 'There is scarcely a cave in the land. but has such a cote in front of it.'
Sheepcotes] These were rough, stone walls, built to protect the sheep from wild beasts. Thomson writes: 'There is scarcely a cave in the land. but has such a cote in front of it.'
Verse 1 Samuel 24:3. _THE SHEEP-COTES_] Caves in the rocks, in which it is common, even to the present time, for shepherds and their flocks to lodge. According to _Strabo_ there are caverns in Syria,...
REMAINED IN THE SIDES - Rather, “were in the sides of the cave dwelling or abiding there.” Some of these caverns are very deep and spacious. Any one near the mouth of the cave would be visible, but th...
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...
TO COVER HIS FEET. Figure of speech _Euphemism._ App-6. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6 :. to stoop, and so cause feet to be covered by the robe....
David spares Saul's life in the cave at En-gedi This narrative and that in ch. 26 are regarded by some commentators as different accounts of the same event. See Note VII. p. 243, and the notes on ch....
_the sheepcotes by the way_ Sheepfolds are still formed in the East by building a wall of loose stones round the mouth of a cave, which serves for shelter in case of bad weather. See _The Land and the...
SAUL WENT IN TO COVER HIS FEET— See Joshua 3:24 and Ruth 3:4. Several commentators suppose, that this expression imports one of the necessities of nature; but one can hardly believe that in this case...
Saul's Life Spared by David, 1 Samuel 24:1-22. _David Spares Saul's Life._ 1 Samuel 24:1-7 And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, B...
_AND HE CAME TO THE SHEEPCOTES BY THE WAY, WHERE WAS A CAVE; AND SAUL WENT IN TO COVER HIS FEET: AND DAVID AND HIS MEN REMAINED IN THE SIDES OF THE CAVE._ He came to the sheep-cotes by the way, where...
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...
THE SHEEPCOTES. — Thomson (_The Land and the Book_) saw, he says, hundreds of these sheepcotes around the mouth of the caves, of which there are so many in Palestine. In that land and among these East...
_[1 Samuel 24:4]_ וַ֠ יָּבֹא אֶל ־גִּדְרֹ֨ות הַ...
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...
RETURNING GOOD FOR EVIL 1 Samuel 24:1 Engedi is situated on the western shore of the Dead Sea. As Saul entered the cave, a very insidious temptation presented itself to David. Why not rid the kingdom...
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...
_Goats; an hyperbole. (Menochius) --- Hebrew, "upon the rocks of the wild goats." (Haydock)_...
(3) And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave. Covering his feet, in these hot countries,...
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 CAME TO THE SHEEPCOTES BY THE WAY, WHERE [WAS] A CAVE,.... For the sheep to be led into at noon, to shelter them from the heat: such was the cave of Polyphemus, observed by Bochart z, in which...
And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where [was] a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave. Ver. 3. _And Saul went in to cover his feet....
_Where was a cave_ This cave being near the highway, and in the most frequented place of the wilderness, namely, near the sheep-cotes, to which the shepherds and herdsmen resorted to feed and milk the...
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...
And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, a locality with large caves which had been fitted up to house sheep, where was a cave; AND SAUL WENT IN TO COVER HIS FEET, to do his easement; AND DAVID AND H...
SAUL IN THE CAVE...
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...
1-7 God delivered Saul into David's hand. It was an opportunity given to David to exercise faith and patience. He had a promise of the kingdom, but no command to slay the king. He reasons strongly, b...
Some think THE SHEEP COTES to have been caves into which they used to drive their sheep for shelter in tempestuous weather. TO COVER HIS FEET, i.e. to ease his belly, as this phrase is thought to be u...
1 Samuel 24:3 came H935 (H8799) sheepfolds H1448 H6629 road H1870 cave H4631 Saul H7586 in H935 ...
SAUL UNWITTINGLY PUTS HIMSELF AT DAVID'S MERCY (1 SAMUEL 24:1). Even in Engedi David was not safe from a vengeful Saul, for once he had driven back the Philistines, Saul gathered three thousand of Isr...
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 24:2 “ROCKS OF THE WILD GOATS,” or _ibex-rocks_. Probably not a name for any particular rock, but a general term applied to the locality on account of the numb...
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...
Judges 3:24; Psalms 141:6; Psalms 142:1; Psalms 57:1...
Went in — To sleep there: Saul being a military man, used to sleep with his soldiers upon the ground. And it is not improbable, that being weary with his eager and almost incessant pursuit, first of D...