Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
1 Samuel 18:27
He doubled the number required; partly to oblige Saul the more to the performance of his promise; and partly to show his great respect and affection to Saul's daughter.
He doubled the number required; partly to oblige Saul the more to the performance of his promise; and partly to show his great respect and affection to Saul's daughter.
Verse 1 Samuel 18:27. _SLEW - TWO HUNDRED MEN._] The Septuagint has only _one_ _hundred men_. Saul covenanted with David for a _hundred_; and David himself says, 2 Samuel 3:14, that he espoused Michal...
3. JONATHAN AND DAVID--SAUL'S JEALOUSY CHAPTER 18 _ 1. Jonathan's love for David (1 Samuel 18:1)_ 2. The beginning of Saul's jealousy (1 Samuel 18:5) 3. David's marriage (1 Samuel 18:17)...
1 Samuel 18:10 to 1 Samuel 19:17. SAUL'S PLOTS AGAINST DAVID. COMPILED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. 1 Samuel 18:10 f. (R). Saul makes an unsuccessful attempt to kill David. A premature duplicate of...
HIS MEN. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14. MEN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. THEY: i.e. Saul's servants. Septuagint and Vulgate read "he"....
_two hundred men_ He slew double the stipulated number of Philistines. The Sept. however reads "one hundred." Cp. 2 Samuel 3:14. _in full tale_ "Tale" = a number told or counted off, a reckoning. Com...
David's marriage with Michal 20. _Michal Saul's daughter loved David_ According to the text of the Sept. this follows immediately upon 1 Samuel 18:16. By his bravery David won the affections of the p...
David the King's Son-in-law. 1 Samuel 18:17-30 17 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the Lord's battles. For S...
_WHEREFORE DAVID AROSE AND WENT, HE AND HIS MEN, AND SLEW OF THE PHILISTINES TWO HUNDRED MEN; AND DAVID_ _ BROUGHT THEIR FORESKINS, AND THEY GAVE THEM IN FULL TALE TO THE KING, THAT HE MIGHT BE THE KI...
THE LOVE OF JONATHAN FOR DAVID 1 Samuel 18:6 of this chapter seem to be connected with 1 Samuel 16:14 and not to be taken from the same document as 1 Samuel 17:1 to...
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 18 V1 David finished talking with Saul. Jonathan, Saul’s son, became a very close friend with David. Jonathan loved David as much as he loved...
וַ יָּ֨קָם דָּוִ֜ד וַ יֵּ֣לֶךְ ׀ ה֣וּא וַ
CHAPTER XXV. _ SAUL'S JEALOUS-DAVID'S MARRIAGE._ 1 Samuel 18:1. THE conqueror of Goliath had been promised, as his reward, the eldest daughter of the king in marriage. The fulfillment of that promis...
PROSPERED IN SPITE OF PLOTS 1 Samuel 18:22 The affection of Michal for the young warrior suggested a way of luring David into personal conflict with the Philistines. Saul's secret hope was that he mi...
Here, in the account of Jonathan and David, begins one of the most perfect stories of love and friendship in the world. The story is all the more beautiful because of its dark background. Love is in i...
Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and (m) they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the ki...
Now that we have heard the prophet's judgment of king Saul, there follows next the choice of Jehovah. The chapter gives us in a very striking manner the manifest sentence of death on all the thoughts...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18 AND 19. But when Christ makes Himself known, the remnant (which Jonathan represented) loves Him as his own soul, and this beloved one becomes the object of...
WHEREFORE DAVID AROSE AND WENT, HE AND HIS MEN, AND SLEW OF THE PHILISTINES TWO HUNDRED MEN,.... This he did himself, for the verb is singular, and which were an hundred more than required; this he di...
_Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king'...
_The days were not expired_ That is, the time allowed by Saul to David for the execution of this exploit. _Two hundred_ He doubled the number required; to oblige Saul the more to the performance of hi...
1 Ionathan loueth Dauid. 5 Saul enuieth his praise, 10 Seeketh to kill him in his furie, 12 Feareth him for his good successe, 17 Offereth him his daughters for a snare. 22 Dauid perswaded to be...
Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, the thousand of whom he was commander, AND SLEW OF THE PHILISTINES TWO HUNDRED MEN; AND DAVID BROUGHT THEIR FORESKINS, AND THEY GAVE THEM IN FULL TALE T...
SAUL PLANS TO HAVE DAVID REMOVED...
Jonathan, the son of Saul stands in refreshing contrast to his father. He was present when David returned to Saul. Doubtless David's victory had attracted Jonathan, but David's words decide him. When...
12-30 For a long time David was kept in continual apprehension of falling by the hand of Saul, yet he persevered in meek and respectful behaviour towards his persecutor. How uncommon is such prudence...
1 Samuel 18:27 David H1732 arose H6965 (H8799) went H3212 (H8799) men H582 killed H5221 (H8686) hundred...
BOUND BY HIS PROMISE SAUL SEEKS TO FULFIL IT BY GIVING ONE OF HIS DAUGHTER'S TO DAVID TO BE HIS WIFE (1 SAMUEL 18:17). Saul had publicly promised that to the victor over Goliath he would give him one...
CONTENTS: Love covenant of Jonathan and David. Saul's jealousy and attempts on David's life. Saul's daughter given to David. CHARACTERS: God, David, Saul, Jonathan, Merab, Michal, Adriel. CONCLUSION:...
1 Samuel 18:4. _Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David._ This was the highest mark of favour he could show him, and it is still esteemed as such in the oriental...
_And Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul._ DAVID’S JEOPARDY Saul was afraid of David. This is most remarkable, for was not Saul the king, and David but...
_And Saul eyed David from that day and forward._ DAVID’S ENEMY-SAUL It is the enmity of Saul which we are to consider--its beginning, its rapid growth, its deadly purpose. The excitement of the war b...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 18:6 As David’s success increases, Saul’s jealousy also increases. ⇐ ⇔...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 18:5. “DAVID WENT OUT.” “That this refers to war and not to general business is plain, not only from the following account, which mentions not only military un...
PERSONAL RELATIONS OF SAUL AND DAVID (CHS. 18-27). FRIENDSHIP OF DAVID AND JONATHAN (CHS. 18-20). EXPOSITION JONATHAN LOVES DAVID ...
Now when it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan [Saul's son was just sort of] knit with the soul of David, Jonathan loved him as himself (1 Samuel 18:1...
1 Samuel 18:13; 2 Samuel 3:14; Judges 14:19...
Two hundred — He doubled the number required; to oblige Saul the more to the performance of his promise; and to shew his great respect and affection to Saul's daughter....