1 Samuel 26:7

spear. This is still the mark of the chiefs tent. Compare 1 Samuel 18:10.

bolster. head.

Related Commentaries of 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:...
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:...
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 be...
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 Sa...
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

Within the trench. — As above, in 1 Samuel 26:5 , “within the barrier of the wagons.” His spear... at his bolster. — “Bolster,” literally, the...
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

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...
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

(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 o...
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 b...
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:...
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...
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 Spares Saul's Life. B. C. 1056. ...
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 pe...
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 fr...
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 Biblical Illustrator

Saul lay sleeping within the trench. The danger of spiritual lethargy The circumstances of Saul, and the manner in which he was treated by Davi...
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

David in Saul's Camp
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, probably considering the bulwark of the wagons a...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 5:2 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:3
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...

⁷ 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.

Related Commentaries of 1 Samuel 26:7

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy 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

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 Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

1 Samuel 26:7