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Verse 1 Samuel 24:19. _IF A MAN FIND HIS ENEMY, WILL HE LET HIM GO
WELL_ _AWAY?_] Or rather, _Will he send him in a good way_? But
_Houbigant_ translates the whole clause thus: _Si quis, inimicum suu...
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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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IF... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. man. Hebrew. _'ish._
App-14....
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_find his enemy_ Get him into his power. Cp. 1 Samuel 23:17; Psalms
21:8.
_will he let him go well away_ A negative answer is of course to be
supplied. "No: yet thou hast done so to me: wherefore, &c...
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Saul's momentary remorse
16. _my son David_ The old fatherly feeling revived. The generous
loving heart of the old days had not yet utterly perished....
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_Saul Accepts David's Plea._ 1 Samuel 24:16-22
16 And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these
words unto Saul, that Saul said, _Is_ this thy voice, my son David?
And Saul lifted...
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24:19 reward (c-17) Or 'Jehovah will reward.'...
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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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THE LORD REWARD THEE GOOD] Gleams of his former high character still
show themselves in Saul....
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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 24:20]_ וְ כִֽי ־יִמְצָ֥א אִישׁ֙
אֶת...
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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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KINDNESS WAKENS A BETTER SPIRIT
1 Samuel 24:16; 1 Samuel 25:1
David's noble self-restraint, followed as it was by no less noble
words, awoke the best side of Saul's nature. Chords began to vibrate
th...
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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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(16) В¶ And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking
these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son
David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept. (17) And he said to...
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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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FOR IF A MAN FIND HIS ENEMY, WILL HE LET HIM GO WELL AWAY?.... Or "in
a good way" e, in peace and safety, without doing him any hurt; this
is not usual among men, and yet this was the present case; Da...
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For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore
the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.
Ver. 19. _For if a man find his enemy; will he let him go well...
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_Thou art more righteous than I_ He ingenuously acknowledges David's
integrity and his own iniquity. _If a man find his enemy, will he let
him go?_ That is, he will certainly destroy him to save himse...
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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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For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? It was a
most unusual way of dealing with an enemy, to let him go scot-free
when such a fine chance to dispose of him offered. WHEREFORE THE...
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SAUL ACKNOWLEDGES HIS FAULT...
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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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16-22 Saul speaks as quite overcome with David's kindness. Many mourn
for their sins, who do not truly repent of them; weep bitterly for
them, yet continue in love and in league with them. Now God ma...
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WILL HE LET HIM GO WELL AWAY? i. e. he will certainly destroy him. And
therefore thou hast not dealt with me after the manner of men, but
hast imitated the clemency of God in this act....
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1 Samuel 24:19 man H376 finds H4672 (H8799) enemy H341 (H8802) let
H7971 (H8765) away H1870 safely...
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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 24:16. “AND SAUL LIFTED UP HIS VOICE.” “There is no
hypocrisy or pretence here. Saul, tossed powerless hither and thither
by fierce passions and without harmony...
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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 Samuel 23:21; 1 Samuel 26:25; Judges 17:2; Proverbs 25:21;...
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The Lord reward thee — Because he thought himself not able to
recompense so great a favour, he prays God to recompense it....