1 Samuel 23:29; John 2:24; Matthew 10:16; Matthew 10:17; Proverbs 26:24; Proverbs 26:25
Saul does not appear to have invited David to return to Gibeah, or to have given him any security of doing so with safety. David, with his intuitiv...
1 Samuel 24. David Spares Saul at Engedi (E). Chs. 24 and 26 give two versions of the same story, located at different places. Probably both versio...
hold . stronghold.
And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold. Saul went home - Confounded at a sense of his own bas...
I know well that thou shalt surely be king— He knew this, says St. Chrysostom, from David's manners, from his kingly virtues, as well as his uncomm...
David spares Saul's Life at Engedi We have a similar incident narrated in 1 Samuel 26 , and some critics hold that the two are merely varying acc...
And David sware unto Saul. — The generous son of Jesse at once complied with Saul’s curious request, and for a time, at least, the persecution and...
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...
Kindness Wakens a Better Spirit 1 Samuel 24:16-22 ; 1 Samuel 25:1 David's noble self-restraint, followed as it was by no less noble words, awo...
At last Saul was in David's power. It would have been perfectly easy for him to have taken his life. He did not do so, but, withholding his hand, utt...
(16) В¶ And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul...
REFLECTIONS READ, my soul, in the character of this deluded, wretched, and unwise king of Israel, the sad history of every unrenewed man, by nature....
And David sware unto Saul ,.... That he would not cut, off his posterity; which oath he religiously observed, in sparing Mephibosheth, 2 Samuel 21:...
And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold. Ver. 22. And David sware unto Saul. ] The same in...
David and his men get them up unto the hold Of Engedi, 1 Samuel 24:1 . For having had so frequent experience of Saul's inconstancy, he would trust...
Having 600 men with him, David could not easily be hidden, and Saul gets the report of his being in the wilderness of En-gedi. Not being exactly a br...
Saul Relents at David's Reproof. B. C. 1057....
David sware unto Saul. Quest. How then could David destroy so many of Saul's sons, 2 Samuel 21:8,9 ? Answ. David could bind himself by his oa...
David Reveals Himself To Saul And Demonstrates That He Has Proved By His Restraint In Not Killing Him That He Is Totally Loyal To Him ( 1 Samuel 24:...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 24:16 . “ And Saul lifted up his voice .” “There is no hypocrisy or pretence here. Saul, tossed powerless...
1 Samuel 24:1 . En-gedi was adjacent to the dead sea. Strabo, speaking of the caverns in Syria and Iturea, says, there is one which will hold four...
Where was a cave and Saul went in . .. and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave. Saul and David in the cave Saul’s animosity...
DAVID IN THE WILDERNESS OF ENGEDI (1Sa 23:29 -35-24). EXPOSITION DAVID SPARES SAUL 'S LIFE IN A CAVE ( 1 Samuel 24:1-9 )...
Saul Acknowledges his Fault
And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home, returned to his royal residence; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold, for they knew bett...
Unto the hold — Of En — gedi, 1 Samuel 24:1 , for having had by frequent experience of Saul's inconstancy, he would trust him no more.
22 And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold.