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Verse 1 Samuel 24:6. _THE LORD'S ANOINTED_] However unworthily Saul
was now acting, he had been appointed to his high office by God
himself, and he could only be removed by the authority which placed...
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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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MASTER. Hebrew. _'Adoni,_ my lord. App-4....
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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....
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DISCOURSE: 305
DAVID’S FORBEARANCE TOWARDS SAUL
1 Samuel 24:4. And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of
which the Lord said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into
thine hand,...
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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...
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_AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTERWARD, THAT DAVID'S HEART SMOTE HIM, BECAUSE
HE HAD CUT OFF SAUL'S SKIRT._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....
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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 24:7]_ וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר לַ אֲנָשָׁ֜יו
חָלִ֧ילָה...
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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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(4) And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the
LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine
hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee....
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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 UNTO HIS MEN,.... When he returned and brought the skirt
of Saul's garment in his hand; or else he said this before that,
though here mentioned, when they moved it to him to dispatch him,...
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And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing
unto my master, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch forth mine hand
against him, seeing he [is] the anointed of the LORD.
Ver. 6. _Th...
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_David's heart smote him_ His intention in cutting off Saul's skirt
was only to give certain proof that he did not seek his life, in that
he had spared it when it was wholly in his power; yet no soone...
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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 he said unto his men, The Lord forbid that I should do this thing
unto my master, the Lord's anointed, to stretch forth mine hand
against him, seeing he is the anointed of the Lord. Saul still hel...
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SAUL IN THE CAVE...
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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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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...
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HE SAID UNTO HIS MEN; either, first, Before he cut off Saul's lap. Or
rather, secondly, Afterwards, when he returned with Saul's lap in his
hand, and his soldiers were enraged that he had not killed h...
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1 Samuel 24:6 said H559 (H8799) men H582 LORD H3068 forbid H2486 do
H6213 (H8799) thing H1697 master...
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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...
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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 24:6 David respects Saul as THE LORD’S
ANOINTED because Saul is still on the royal throne as king over
Israel, even though the Spirit of the Lord has already left him....
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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...
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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 Kings 21:3; 1 Samuel 26:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:15; 2 Samuel 1:14;...