1 Samuel 26:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it. ”

1 Samuel 26:22 - 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...
1 Samuel 26:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it.
1 Samuel 26:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceeding...
1 Samuel 26:22 - 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 .
1 Samuel 26:22 - 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....
1 Samuel 26:22 - 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...
1 Samuel 26:22 - 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...
1 Samuel 26:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(22) And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it. (23) The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD...
1 Samuel 26:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And David answered and said, behold the king's spear !.... And which perhaps was his sceptre, and which David therefore would not keep, lest it should be thought or said that he had deprived him of...
1 Samuel 26:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it. Ver. 22. Behold the king's spear!] Which I took away, not to retain it, but to return it,...
1 Samuel 26:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Behold the king's spear , &c. He did not think it proper to put himself in Saul's power by going and presenting it himself to him. The Lord render to every man his righteousness In these words...
1 Samuel 26:22 - 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...
1 Samuel 26:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Saul Relents. B. C. 1056. 21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for...
1 Samuel 26:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
1 Samuel 26:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Saul's Response ( 1 Samuel 26:17-25 ). The difference between this reply and that in 1 Samuel 24:17-21 is striking. In 1 Samuel 24:17-21 Saul had declared that David was more righteous than he...
1 Samuel 26:22 - 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...
1 Samuel 26:22 - 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....
1 Samuel 26:22 - 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...
1 Samuel 26:22 - 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...
1 Samuel 26:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Saul Overcome by David's Plea

1 Samuel 26:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 26:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Samuel 26:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 26:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 26:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Samuel 26:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Samuel 26:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 26:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Samuel 26:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Samuel 26:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Samuel 26:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 26:22 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 26:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 26:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Samuel 26:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 26:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Samuel 26:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 26:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Samuel 26:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Samuel 26:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann