E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Samuel 26:8
God. Hebrew. Elohim . App-4 . let me smite him . Note Abishai's character. 2 Samuel 16:9 ; 2 Samuel 19:21 . read more
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E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Samuel 26:9
Destroy . . . not. See Deuteronomy 9:26 , the subscriptions of Psa 56:57 , Psa 56:58 , Psa 56:74 , and App-65 . the LORD ' S. Hebrew. Jehovah . App-4 . read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Samuel 26:6
DAVID SPARED SAUL'S LIFE A SECOND TIME"Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Joab's brother Abishai, "Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul"? And Abishai said, "I will go down with you." So David and Abishai went to the army by night; and there lay Saul sleeping within the encampment with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the army lay around him. Then said Abishai to David, "God has given your enemy into your hand this day; now therefore let me pin him... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 26:5
1 Samuel 26:5. And Saul lay in the trench— Within the trench, Houbigant; which appears to be the true meaning of the original word. The Chaldee renders it the same. This entrenchment is generally thought to have consisted of chariots joined together; and therefore Le Clerc renders it, not improperly, intra ambitum plaustrorum. The LXX with no great propriety read; in his chariot. The author of the Observations is of a different opinion from Houbigant. "One can hardly imagine," says he, "that... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 26:7-12
1 Samuel 26:7-12. 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 been discovered. But David was bold and intrepid; and his and Abishai's gallantry in this affair deserves certainly to be no less celebrated than that of Ulysses and Diomed, when they went as spies to the Trojan camp. But there is more in David to be commended than his gallantry. Who can help admiring his magnanimity and piety? What... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Samuel 26:4
4, 5. David . . . sent out spies . . . and David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched—Having obtained certain information of the locality, he seems, accompanied by his nephew ( :-), to have hid himself, perhaps disguised, in a neighboring wood, or hill, on the skirts of the royal camp towards night, and waited to approach it under covert of the darkness. :-. DAVID STAYS ABISHAI FROM KILLING SAUL, BUT TAKES HIS SPEAR AND CRUSE. read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Samuel 26:5
5. Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him—Among the nomad people of the East, the encampments are usually made in a circular form. The circumference is lined by the baggage and the men, while the chief's station is in the center, whether he occupy a tent or not. His spear, stuck in the ground, indicates his position. Similar was the disposition of Saul's camp—in this hasty expedition he seems to have carried no tent, but to have slept on the ground. The whole troop was... read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Samuel 26:7
spear. This is still the mark of the chiefs tent. Compare 1 Samuel 18:10 . bolster = head. read more