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Verse 1 Samuel 26:8. _GOD HATH DELIVERED THINE ENEMY INTO THINE HAND_]
Here Abishai uses the same language as did David's men, when Saul came
into the cave at En-gedi, (see 1 Samuel 24:4, c.,) and Dav...
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CHAPTER 26
_ 1. The Ziphites and Saul's pursuit (1 Samuel 26:1)_
2. David again spares Saul (1 Samuel 26:5)
3. David's words to Abner (1 Samuel 26:13)
4. David's words to Saul ...
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1 SAMUEL 26. DAVID SPARES SAUL IN THE WILDERNESS OF ZIPH (J). From one
of the oldest sources (_cf._ on ch. 24).
1 SAMUEL 26:1 TO 1 SAMUEL 12:1 f. repeats briefly the substance and
part of the wording...
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GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim_. App-4.
LET ME SMITE HIM. Note Abishai's character. 2 Samuel 16:9; 2 Samuel
19:21....
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Saul's life again in David's power
5. _in the trench_ See on 1 Samuel 17:20. The Sept. rendering "in a
chariot" is a mistake....
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_hath delivered_ Lit. _shut up_, as in 1 Samuel 24:18.
_at once_ Not "immediately," but "WITH ONE STROKE....
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SO DAVID AND ABISHAI CAME TO THE PEOPLE, &C.— This was a bold and
hazardous undertaking, which would have been certain death to David
had he been discovered. But David was bold and intrepid; and his a...
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_David Again Spares Saul. 1 Samuel 26:6-20_
6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to
Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down
with me to Saul to the...
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_THEN SAID ABISHAI TO DAVID, GOD HATH DELIVERED THINE ENEMY INTO THINE
HAND THIS DAY: NOW THEREFORE LET ME SMITE HIM, I PRAY THEE, WITH THE
SPEAR EVEN TO THE EARTH AT ONCE, AND I WILL NOT SMITE HIM TH...
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DAVID SPARES SAUL'S LIFE A SECOND TIME
1. Hachilah] near the wilderness of Ziph: see 1 Samuel 23:19....
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At once] RV 'at one stroke.'...
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 26
DAVID AGAIN REFUSES TO KILL SAUL
V1 Some men from Ziph went to visit Saul at Gibeah. They said,
‘David is hiding on the hill of Hakilah whi...
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I WILL NOT SMITE HIM THE SECOND TIME. — The meaning of _the_ savage
words of Abishai is accurately given in Lange’s paraphrase, “I
will pin him to the ground so thoroughly with one blow that it will
n...
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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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SPARING HIS ENEMY'S LIFE
1 Samuel 26:1
The Ziphites' treachery served as a foil to the intrinsic nobility of
David's character. God made the wrath of man to praise Him, and
restrained the remainder,...
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Once again we have the account of how David spared the life of Saul.
There is no reason at all for the view that this is a repetition of
the previous story. A quiet comparison of the two will show man...
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Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine
hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the
spear even to the earth at once, and I will not [smite] him t...
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_My. Hebrew, "the spear," which was fixed in the ground at Saul's
pillow. Protestants, "let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear,
even to the earth, at once, and I will not smite him a second tim...
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(8) Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into
thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with
the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him...
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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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Alas! Saul is unchanged; instigated by the Ziphites, he seeks David
anew, but it is only to fall again, and more publicly, into David's
hands. Observe that David now appeals more directly to the Lord...
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THEN SAID ABISHAI TO DAVID,.... Seeing Saul fast asleep, and a spear
so near him:
GOD HATH DELIVERED THINE ENEMY INTO THINE HAND THIS DAY: or at this
time, properly it was night:
NOW THEREFORE LET M...
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Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine
hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the
spear even to the earth at once, and I will not [smite] him t...
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_Now, therefore, let me smite him_ Although David would not kill him
himself, when he had the like opportunity, 1 Samuel 24:4; yet Abishai
thought he might give him leave to do it; and he pledged hims...
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1 Saul by the discouery of the Ziphites, commeth to Hachilah against
Dauid.
4 Dauid comming into the trench, stayeth Abishai from killing Saul,
but taketh his speare and cruse.
13 Dauid reprooueth A...
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David in Saul's Camp...
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Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine
hand this day; for so, according to the usage of war, he regarded
Saul; NOW, THEREFORE, LET ME SMITE HIM, I PRAY THEE, WITH THE SP...
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It seems tragically foolish on Saul's part that he should respond as
he did to another message from the Ziphites to the effect that David
was hiding in the hill country of Hachilah (v.1). He had told...
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DELIVERED:
_ Heb._ shut up...
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1-12 How soon do unholy hearts lose the good impressions convictions
have made upon them! How helpless were Saul and all his men! All as
though disarmed and chained, yet nothing is done to them; they...
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I will nail him to the ground at one blow, that I shall not need a
second stroke....
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1 Samuel 26:8 Abishai H52 said H559 (H8799) David H1732 God H430
delivered H5462 (H8765) enemy H341 ...
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DAVID RESTRAINS ABISHAI FROM SMITING THE SLEEPING SAUL BECAUSE SAUL IS
YHWH'S OWN, AND INSTEAD COMMANDS THE APPROPRIATION OF HIS CEREMONIAL
SPEAR AND WATER JAR (1 SAMUEL 26:8).
Having arrived at dead...
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CONTENTS: Saul spared by David a second time.
CHARACTERS: God, David, Saul, Abishai, Abner, Ahimelech.
CONCLUSION: No questionable means need be employed to help out God's
plans for our advancement...
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1 Samuel 26:5. _Saul lay in the trench._ Junius reads, “among the
waggons;” the Vulgate, “He slept in the tent.” The Romans mostly
fortified their camp; the Greeks did the same on the Trojan shore.
1...
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_Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah._
THE REPROACH OF THE ENEMY
Dr. Maclaren is specially emphatic in connecting Psalms 7:1 with this
part of David’s history, and indicates its valu...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 26:1 This chapter resembles ch. 1 Samuel
24:1, but there are too many differences to think that they are simply
different versions of the same event....
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
The fact that the incidents related in this chapter agree in some
points with those narrated in Chapter s 23; 24 has led Ewald, Thenius,
and others to conclude that the...
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DAVID A SECOND TIME SPARES SAUL'S LIFE (1 Samuel 26:1.).
EXPOSITION
SAUL, ON INFORMATION FROM THE ZIPHITES, AGAIN SEEKS TO...
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Let's turn in our Bibles to first Samuel, twenty-six, and let's begin
our study of these final five Chapter s, six Chapter s.
The wilderness of Ziph actually lies between Hebron and the area of
the De...
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1 Samuel 23:14; 1 Samuel 24:18; 1 Samuel 24:19; 1 Samuel 24:4;...