Joshua 2:1; Matthew 10:16
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:...
David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.
Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of...
David spares Saul's Life a Second Time 1. Hachilah] near the wilderness of Ziph: see 1 Samuel 23:19 .
Was come in very deed ] Heb. 'was come to Nakon.' Nakon = 'a set place' (RM), though it may have been the corruption of a place-name, such as Maon...
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...
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...
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...
(4) David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed. It should seem that David could not be immediately brought to be...
David therefore sent out spies ,.... To observe if he was coming or come, and where he was, that he might not be surprised by him; for though David...
David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed. Ver. 4. David therefore sent out spies. ] A practice in war both l...
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...
Saul Again Pursues David. B. C. 1056. ...
No text from Poole on this verse.
The Ziphites Inform Saul That David Has Returned to the Hill of Hachilah And Saul Again Pursues David ( 1 Samuel 26:1-4 ). The Ziphites were proba...
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...
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...
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...
DAVID A SECOND TIME SPARES SAUL 'S LIFE ( 1 Samuel 26:1-9 .). EXPOSITION SAUL , ON INFORMATION FROM THE ZIPHITES , AGAIN...
David in Saul's Camp
David, therefore, sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed, he received definite information to that effect, the matter was bey...
4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.