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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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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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_stooped_, &c. Better, BOWED HIMSELF WITH HIS FACE TO THE GROUND AND
DID OBEISANCE. The usual Oriental gesture of reverence to a king or
superior is described. See on 1 Samuel 20:41. Cp. 1 Kings 1:16;...
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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 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._
D...
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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 CRIED AFTER SAUL. — The outlaw suffered the king and his
companion to proceed some little way — possibly down the deep ascent
which led up to the cave’s mouth — and then called after Saul, but
wit...
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_[1 Samuel 24:9]_ וַ יָּ֨קָם דָּוִ֜ד אַחֲרֵי
־כֵ֗ן...
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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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(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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DAVID ALSO AROSE AFTERWARD,.... After Saul was gone:
AND WENT OUT OF THE CAVE; where he had been all the time that Saul had
been in it:
AND CRIED AFTER SAUL: with a loud voice: my lord the king; by...
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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.
Ver...
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_And suffered them not to rise against Saul_ He not only would not do
this ill thing himself, but he would not suffer those about him to do
it. Thus did he render good for evil to him, from whom he ha...
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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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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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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 24:8 David H1732 arose H6965 (H8799) out H3318 (H8799) cave
H4631 out H7121 (H8799) to...
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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 Peter 2:17; 1 Samuel 20:41; 1 Samuel 25:23; 1 Samuel 25:24;...