1 Samuel 26:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him. ”

1 Samuel 26:7 - 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 26:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

spear. This is still the mark of the chiefs tent. Compare 1 Samuel 18:10 . bolster . head.
1 Samuel 26:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
1 Samuel 26:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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; an...
1 Samuel 26:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down w...
1 Samuel 26:7 - 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 26:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Within the trench. — As above, in 1 Samuel 26:5 , “within the barrier of the wagons.” His spear... at his bolster. — “Bolster,” literally, the place where his head is, better rendered at his...
1 Samuel 26:7 - 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 26:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Sparing His Enemy's Life 1 Samuel 26:1-12 The Ziphites' treachery served as a foil to the intrinsic nobility of David's character. God made the wrath of man to praise Him, and restrained the re...
1 Samuel 26:7 - 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 26:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(5) And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the pe...
1 Samuel 26:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So David and Abishai came to the people by night ,.... Josephus l wrongly says, that he took with him both Abishai and Ahimelech; he chose to have but one, for the greater secrecy. This was a bold e...
1 Samuel 26:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him. V...
1 Samuel 26:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ahimelech the Hittite A valiant man of that nation, who was a proselyte to the Jewish religion; and not only followed David, but was always near to his person. Abishai Brother to Joab, the son of...
1 Samuel 26:7 - 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 26:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

David Spares Saul's Life. B. C. 1056. 6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the...
1 Samuel 26:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

To the people, i. e. to Saul's host and camp. It might seem a bold and strange attempt; but many things are to be considered: 1. That heroical persons have oft attempted things of no less difficu...
1 Samuel 26:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

David Pays A Secret Visit To Saul And Enters His Camp ( 1 Samuel 26:5-7 ). David then took two of his best men with him and went to an eminence from which he could observe Saul's camp, and from th...
1 Samuel 26:7 - 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 26:7 - 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 26:7 - 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 26:7 - 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 26:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

David in Saul's Camp
1 Samuel 26:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 5:2 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:3
1 Samuel 26:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Came — That is, to Saul's host. It might seem a bold and strange attempt; but it may be considered: That David had a particular assurance that God would preserve him to the kingdom. That he had a s...

1 Samuel 26:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 26:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Samuel 26:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Samuel 26:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Samuel 26:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 26:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 26:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Samuel 26:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Samuel 26:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Samuel 26:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 26:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Samuel 26:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Samuel 26:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Samuel 26:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 26:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 26:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 26:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Samuel 26:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 26:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Samuel 26:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 26:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Samuel 26:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Samuel 26:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Samuel 26:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 26:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes