1 Samuel 26:19

1 Samuel 26:19

17 Then Saul knew David’s voice, and said, ^a“Is that your voice, my son David?” David said, “It is my voice, my lord, O king.”

18 And he said, ^a“Why does my lord thus pursue his servant? For what have I done, or what evil is in my hand?

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.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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If the Lord have stirred thee up against me—By the evil spirit He had sent, or by any spiritual offenses by which we have mutually displeased Him.

let him accept an offering—that is, let us conjointly offer a sacrifice for appeasing His wrath against us.

if they be the children of men—The prudence, meekness, and address of David in ascribing the king's enmity to the instigations of some malicious traducers, and not to the jealousy of Saul himself, is worthy of notice.

saying, Go, serve other gods—This was the drift of their conduct. By driving him from the land and ordinances of the true worship, into foreign and heathen countries, they were exposing him to all the seductions of idolatry.

1 Samuel 26:13-20

Then David . . . stood on the top of an hill afar off . . . and cried to the people—(See on Judges 9:7). The extraordinary purity and elasticity of the air in Palestine enable words to be distinctly heard that are addressed by a speaker from the top of one hill to people on that of another, from which it is separated by a deep intervening ravine. Hostile parties can thus speak to each other, while completely beyond the reach of each other's attack. It results from the peculiar features of the country in many of the mountain districts.

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