1 Samuel 26 - Introduction
_DAVID, IN THE DESART OF ZIPH, TAKES AWAY SAUL'S SPEAR, AND PREVENTS ABISHAI FROM KILLING HIM, WHILE HE IS ASLEEP: HE EXPOSTULATES WITH SAUL; WHO CONFESSES HIS SIN._ _Before Christ 1057._... [ Continue Reading ]
_DAVID, IN THE DESART OF ZIPH, TAKES AWAY SAUL'S SPEAR, AND PREVENTS ABISHAI FROM KILLING HIM, WHILE HE IS ASLEEP: HE EXPOSTULATES WITH SAUL; WHO CONFESSES HIS SIN._ _Before Christ 1057._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAUL LAY IN THE TRENCH— _Within the trench,_ Houbigant; which appears to be the true meaning of the original word. The Chaldee renders it the same. This entrenchment is generally thought to have consisted of chariots joined together; and therefore Le Clerc renders it, not improperly, _intra ambi... [ Continue Reading ]
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 and Abishai's gallantry in this affair deserves certainly to be no less celebrated than that of Ulyss... [ Continue Reading ]
DAVID SAID TO ABNER, ART NOT THOU, &C.— It may be asked, how could David make Abner and Saul hear, as it appears from the 13th verse that there was a great distance between them? The answer is easy. To ascend from one high hill to another, requires time; and in this sense, however adjacent, the two... [ Continue Reading ]
IF THE LORD HAVE STIRRED THEE UP AGAINST ME, LET HIM ACCEPT, &C.— That is, says Delaney, "If God have excited you against me, on the score of any guilt for which I deserve to die; behold, here I am, ready to be sacrificed in atonement for it." Others understand it as expressive of David's readiness... [ Continue Reading ]
A PARTRIDGE— The Hebrew word קרא _kore, a partridge,_ occurs only here and Jeremiah 17:11 and has its name, according to Parkhurst, from the note that it utters in calling its young or mate; which cannot be better expressed in articulate sounds, than by קרא _quera._ Whoever reads with tolerable atte... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID SAUL, I HAVE SINNED— Bayle has endeavoured to prove that this event, and that related in chap. 24: are but one and the same. To destroy this seeming identity, it will not be unseasonable to attend to the following circumstances, which prove the events to be different. In the first, David w... [ Continue Reading ]