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1 Samuel 26:21
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19 Now therefore, please, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the Lord has astirred you up against me, let Him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, bfor they have driven me out this day from sharing in the cinheritance of the Lord, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’  
20 So now, do not let my blood fall to the earth before the face of the Lord. For the king of Israel has come out to seek aa flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”  
21 Then Saul said, a“I have sinned. Return, my son David. For I will harm you no more, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Indeed I have played the fool and erred exceedingly.”  
22 And David answered and said, “Here is the king’s spear. Let one of the young men come over and get it.
23 aMay the Lord brepay every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the Lord delivered you into my hand today, but I would not stretch out my hand against the Lord’s anointed.  
24 And indeed, as your life was valued much this day in my eyes, so let my life be valued much in the eyes of the Lord, and let Him deliver me out of all tribulation.”
25 Then Saul said to David, “May you be blessed, my son David! You shall both do great things and also still aprevail.” So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place. 
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1 Samuel 26:21

My soul, etc. - This second instance of David's tenderness wrought more upon Saul than the former. He owns himself melted and quite overcome by David's kindness to him. My soul was precious in thine eyes, which I thought had been odious. He acknowledges he had done very ill to persecute him: I have acted against God's law, I have sinned: and against my own interest, I have played the fool, in pursuing him as an enemy, who was indeed one of my best friends. And herein I have erred exceedingly, have wronged both thee and myself. Nothing can be more full and ingenuous than this confession: God surely now touched his heart. And he promises to persecute him no more: nor does it appear that he ever attempted it.




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