1 Samuel 26:18

evil. Hebrew. ra'a. App-44.

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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

And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king. No JFB commentary on...
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 .
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

What have I done? — The whole address of David to Saul is intensely reverent, even loving. The conspicuous trophy of his late “night raid” was in h...
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

And he said, wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant ?.... Suggesting that it was both below him to do it, and against his interest; fo...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil [is] in mine hand? Ver. 18. Wherefore doth m...
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

No text from Poole on this verse.
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...
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

And he said, once more urging his innocence, which stood out all the more strongly in view of the fact that he had spared Saul's life once more, Whe...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 17:29 ; 1 Samuel 24:11-14 ; 1 Samuel 24:9 ; John 10:32 ; John 18:23 ; John 8:46 ; Psalms 35:7 ; Psalms 69:4 ; Psalms 7:3-5

¹⁸ And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?

Related Commentaries of 1 Samuel 26:18

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

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole 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

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 26:18