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Verse 1 Samuel 24:15. _THE LORD THEREFORE BE JUDGE_] Let God determine
who is guilty....
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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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DELIVER. judge, or justly deliver....
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_plead my cause_ Cp. Psalms 35:1 ff.; possibly written about this
time.
_deliver me out of thy hand_ Lit. _judge me out of thy hand_: give me
my right, and set me free....
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David pleads his innocence
9. _men's words_ Calumniators like "Cush the Benjamite," against whom
Psalms 7 is directed, strove to inflame Saul's mind against David.
That Psalm has been with much probab...
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_David Pleads for His Life._ 1 Samuel 24:8-15
8 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried
after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him,
David stooped wit...
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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 24:16]_ וְ הָיָ֤ה יְהוָה֙ לְ
דַיָּ֔ן...
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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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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...
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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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_Dog. This expression is still used to denote a contemptible person, 2
Kings xvi. 9. What honour can so great a king derive, from gaining the
victory over a man unarmed? &c. (Calmet)_...
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(8) David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried
after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him,
David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself....
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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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THE LORD THEREFORE BE JUDGE, AND JUDGE BETWEEN ME AND THEE,....
Signifying he did not desire to be judge in his own cause, but leave
it with God to determine it for him in his providence:
AND SEE, AN...
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_The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see,
and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand._
Ver. 15. _The Lord therefore be judge, and judge._] See 1 Samuel 24:12
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_After whom is the king of Israel come out?_ David here employs every
persuasive art to move Saul. He represents himself in as contemptible
a light as possible; that he might convince Saul it was not...
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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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The Lord, therefore, because David was innocent and because Saul's
persecution was foolish, BE JUDGE, and judge BETWEEN ME AND THEE, AND
SEE, AND PLEAD MY CAUSE, AND DELIVER ME OUT OF THINE HAND, to b...
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DAVID PROTESTS HIS INNOCENCE...
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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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DELIVER:
_ Heb._ judge...
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8-15 David was falsely charged with seeking Saul's hurt; he shows Saul
that God's providence had given him opportunity to do it. And it was
upon a good principle that he refused to do it. He declares...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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1 Samuel 24:15 LORD H3068 judge H1781 judge H8199 (H8804) see H7200
(H8799) plead H7378 (H8799) case...
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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 24:8. The closeness of the precipitous rocks and the depth of
the ravines or wadies between them, together with the remarkable
purity of the air, made it quite...
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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 24:12; 1 Samuel 26:4; 2 Chronicles 24:22; Micah 1:2; Micah
7:9