1 Samuel 26:16

not. Hebrew. `al. (Absolute.)

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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:...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD'S anointed...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD's anointed....
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 .
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...
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...
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...
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 t...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

This thing [is] not good that thou hast done ,.... Yea, it was very bad, a great fault, and very blameworthy, if he had neglected to set a watch ove...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

This thing [is] not good that thou hast done. [As] the LORD liveth, ye [are] worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD'S anointed...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Wherefore hast thou not kept , &c. Observed better military discipline for the preservation of the king's person? There came one of the people...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

David Expostulates with Saul. B. C. 1056....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This thing is not good, i.e. it is very bad, a great crime. A figure called meiosis , as Proverbs 18:5 , Proverbs 19:2 .
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 ve...
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 ha...
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...
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...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Saul Overcome by David's Plea
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the Lord liveth, ye are worthy to die, literally, "Sons of death are ye," because ye have not kept yo...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 20:31 ; 1 Samuel 24:6 ; 1 Samuel 26:11 ; 1 Samuel 26:9 ; 2 Samuel 12:5 ; 2 Samuel 19:28 ; Ephesians 2:3 ; Psalms 102:20 ; Psalms 79...

¹⁶ This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die,c because ye have not kept your master, the LORD'S anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.

Related Commentaries of 1 Samuel 26:16

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 26:16