1 Samuel 24:4 men H582 David H1732 said H559 (H8799) day H3117 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8804) deliver H5414 (H8802) enemy H341 (H8802) hand H3027 do H6213 (H8804) good H3190 (H8799) you H5869 David H1732 arose H6965 (H8799) secretly H3909 off H3772 (H8799) corner H3671 Sauls H7586 robe H4598
the men - 1 Samuel 26:8-11; 2 Samuel 4:8; Job 31:31
I will deliver - 1 Samuel 24:10, 1 Samuel 24:18, 1 Samuel 23:7, 1 Samuel 26:23
Verse 1 Samuel 24:4. _AND THE MEN OF DAVID SAID_] We know not to what promise of God the men of David refer; they perhaps meant no more than to say, "Behold, the Lord hath delivered thine enemy into t...
THE DAY OF WHICH THE LORD SAID ... - This was the version by David’s men of such divine predictions as 1 Samuel 15:28; 1 Samuel 16:1, 1 Samuel 16:12. Jonathan’s words...
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
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...
MEN. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. as. according as. UNTO THEE. in thine eyes. SKIRT. corner, or wing....
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....
_of which the Lord said_ David may have received from Samuel and Gad assurances of his ultimate deliverance from Saul's persecutions, which his followers interpret in their own way. Cp. 1 Samuel 23:17...
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,...
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...
_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. TH...
It is probable that we should translate 'Behold the day on which the LORD saith to thee,' i.e. they interpret the opportunity as a manifest sign of God's intention that Saul should be slain....
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...
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...
BEHOLD THE DAY OF WHICH THE LORD SAID UNTO THEE. — This was the version by David’s men of such predictions as 1 Samuel 15:28; 1 Samuel 16:1; 1 Samuel 16:12. Jonathan’s words ...
_[1 Samuel 24:5]_ וַ יֹּאמְרוּ֩ אַנְשֵׁ֨י דָוִ֜ד אֵלָ֗יו...
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...
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...
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...
And the men of David said unto him, (c) 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....
Cotes. These were probably no other than the caverns, in which shepherds there secure themselves and their flocks, in the night, and from storms. (Tirinus) --- Some of them, in Syria, are so capacious...
(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....
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...
"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...
AND THE MEN OF DAVID SAID UNTO HIM,.... Some of his principal men, who were about him, and near him, such as Joab and Abishai: BEHOLD THE DAY OF WHICH THE LORD SAID UNTO THEE: now the time was come t...
_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. Th...
_The men of David said unto him_, &c. The cave being very large, and David and his men at the further end of it, they might see Saul by the light of the entrance, without his seeing them, and might wh...
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...
And the men of David said unto him, for they could plainly see Saul, as they looked toward the light, while Saul's eyes could not penetrate the darkness in the rear, Behold the day of which the Lord s...
SAUL IN THE CAVE...
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...
SAULS ROBE: _ Heb._ the robe, which was Sauls...
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...
QUEST. How came it to pass that Saul did not hear his debates of David and his men? ANSW. First, The greater noise of Saul's men and horses, just by the cave's mouth, might easily drown the lesser. Se...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
DAVID IN THE WILDERNESS OF ENGEDI (1Sa 23:29 -35-24). EXPOSITION DAVID SPARES SAUL'S LIFE IN A CAVE (1 Samuel 24:1)....
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...
1 Samuel 23:7; 1 Samuel 24:10; 1 Samuel 24:18; 1 Samuel 26:23;...
Behold, &c. — Not that God had said these words, or made any such promise; but they put this construction upon those promises which God had made to him, of delivering him from all his enemies, and car...