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Verse 1 Samuel 24:22. _SAUL WENT HOME_] Confounded at a sense of his
own baseness, and overwhelmed with a sense of David's generosity.
_DAVID AND HIS MEN GAT THEM UP UNTO THE HOLD._] _Went up to Miz...
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Saul does not appear to have invited David to return to Gibeah, or to
have given him any security of doing so with safety. David, with his
intuitive sagacity, perceived that the softening of Saul’s fe...
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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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HOLD. stronghold....
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_gat them up unto the hold_ Returned to the fastnesses of En-gedi.
Experience had proved that Saul's repentance was not to be trusted....
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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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I KNOW WELL THAT THOU SHALT SURELY BE KING— He knew this, says St.
Chrysostom, from David's manners, from his kingly virtues, as well as
his uncommon success; but, above all, he knew his divine design...
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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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AND DAVID SWARE UNTO SAUL. — The generous son of Jesse at once
complied with Saul’s curious request, and for a time, at least, the
persecution and pursuit of David ceased. Stricken with remorse, the
g...
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_[1 Samuel 24:23]_ וַ יִּשָּׁבַ֥ע דָּוִ֖ד לְ
שָׁא֑וּל...
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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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REFLECTIONS
READ, my soul, in the character of this deluded, wretched, and unwise
king of Israel, the sad history of every unrenewed man, by nature.
Blind to all his own real interest and happiness; a...
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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 DAVID SWARE UNTO SAUL,.... That he would not cut, off his
posterity; which oath he religiously observed, in sparing
Mephibosheth, 2 Samuel 21:7, and in punishing the murderers of
Ishbosheth, 2 Sam...
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And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men
gat them up unto the hold.
Ver. 22. _And David sware unto Saul._] The same in effect that he had
sworn before to Jonathan.
_ And...
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_David and his men get them up unto the hold Of Engedi, 1 Samuel
24:1_. For having had so frequent experience of Saul's inconstancy, he
would trust him no more. It is indeed dangerous to trust a recon...
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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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And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home, returned to his royal
residence; BUT DAVID AND HIS MEN GAT THEM UP UNTO THE HOLD, for they
knew better than to expect Saul to retain the kind disposition...
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SAUL ACKNOWLEDGES HIS FAULT...
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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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DAVID SWARE UNTO SAUL. QUEST. How then could David destroy so many of
Saul's sons, 2 SAMUEL 21:8,9 ? ANSW. David could bind himself by his
oaths, but he could not bind God, to whose good pleasure all...
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1 Samuel 24:22 David H1732 swore H7650 (H8735) Saul H7586 Saul H7586
went H3212 (H8799) home H1004 David...
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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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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 24:22 BUT DAVID AND HIS MEN WENT UP TO THE
STRONGHOLD. Despite Saul’s acknowledgment of David’s right to the
throne (v. 1 Samuel 24:20), Dav
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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 23:29; John 2:24; Matthew 10:16; Matthew 10:17; Proverbs 2
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Unto the hold — Of En — gedi, 1 Samuel 24:1, for having had by
frequent experience of Saul's inconstancy, he would trust him no more....