1 Samuel 26:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them: ”

• 1 Samuel 26:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 t...

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them:

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them: Then David ... stood on the top of an hill afar off ...

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  David spares Saul's Life a Second Time 1. Hachilah] near the wilderness of Ziph: see 1 Samuel 23:19 .

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  David went over to the other side. — That is to say, after taking the royal spear and cruse of water from beside the sleeping king, David with Abishai left the camp of Saul, then, crossing the deep...

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XXXI. DAVID TWICE SPARES THE LIFE OF SAUL. 1 Samuel 24:1-22 ; 1 Samuel 26:1-25 . THE invasion of the Philistines had freed David from the fear of Saul for a time, but only for a time....

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Facing the Truth at Last 1 Samuel 26:13-25 It is good to notice David's frequent references to the living Lord. See 1 Samuel 26:10 ; 1 Samuel 26:16 ; 1 Samuel 26:23 . The fact is that he was...

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 ma...

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (13) В¶ Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them: (14) And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, An...

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then David went over to the other side ,.... To a hill on the other side, opposite to Hachilah, where Saul lay encamped; or "passed over the passage" q, the valley that lay between the two hills, an...

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space [being] between them: Ver. 13. And stood on the top of a hill afar off. ] On a hill, that he might b...

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And stood on the top of a hill On such a rock or precipice that there was no coming to him but by taking a circuit round. So that it might be said, in respect of the way whereby only they could com...

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  David Expostulates with Saul. B. C. 1056.       13 Then David went over to the other side, a...

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  That his person might be out of their reach, and yet his voice might be heard; which in a clear air, and in the silence of the night, might be heard at a great distance.

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Secret Of The Success Of Their Venture And David's Rebuke of Abner For Failing To Watch Over Saul ( 1 Samuel 26:12-16 ). We now learn, in a verse which in one sense stands by itself, being its...

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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....

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah. The reproach of the enemy Dr. Maclaren is specially emphatic in connecting Psalms 7:1-17 with this part of David’s history, and indicates...

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  DAVID A SECOND TIME SPARES SAUL 'S LIFE ( 1 Samuel 26:1-9 .). EXPOSITION SAUL , ON INFORMATION FROM THE ZIPHITES , AGAIN SEEKS TO DESTROY DAVID ( 1 Samuel 26:1-9...

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; having crossed the valley, he climbed back to the very top of the hill from which he had probably come down in the ev...

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 24:8 ; Judges 9:7

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• 1 Samuel 26:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Afar off — That his person might be out of their reach, and yet his voice might be heard; which in a clear air, and in the silence of the night might be heard at a great distance.

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