1 Samuel 26:13

Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them:

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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:...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them: Then David ... stood on t...
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

David went over to the other side. — That is to say, after taking the royal spear and cruse of water from beside the sleeping king, David with Abis...
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

Then David went over to the other side ,.... To a hill on the other side, opposite to Hachilah, where Saul lay encamped; or "passed over the passage...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space [being] between them: Ver. 13. And stood on the to...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And stood on the top of a hill On such a rock or precipice that there was no coming to him but by taking a circuit round. So that it might be said,...
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

That his person might be out of their reach, and yet his voice might be heard; which in a clear air, and in the silence of the night, might be heard...
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

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; having crossed the valley, he climbed back to the very top of the h...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Saul Overcome by David's Plea
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 24:8 ; Judges 9:7
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Afar off — That his person might be out of their reach, and yet his voice might be heard; which in a clear air, and in the silence of the night mig...

¹³ Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them:

Related Commentaries of 1 Samuel 26:13

Arthur Peake's Commentary 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

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

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

1 Samuel 26:13