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Selected Verse: 1 Samuel 19:8 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
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| 1Sa 19:8 |
Strong Concordance |
And there was war [04421] again [03254]: and David [01732] went out [03318], and fought [03898] with the Philistines [06430], and slew [05221] them with a great [01419] slaughter [04347]; and they fled [05127] from [06440] him. |
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King James |
And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
SAUL'S MALICIOUS RAGE BREAKS OUT AGAINST DAVID. (Sa1 19:8-17)
David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter--A brilliant victory was gained over the public enemy. But these fresh laurels of David reawakened in the moody breast of Saul the former spirit of envy and melancholy. On David's return to court, the temper of Saul became more fiendish than ever; the melodious strains of the harp had lost all their power to charm; and in a paroxysm of uncontrollable frenzy he aimed a javelin at the person of David--the missile having been thrown with such force that it pierced the chamber wall. David providentially escaped; but the king, having now thrown off the mask and being bent on aggressive measures, made his son-in-law's situation everywhere perilous. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Another great defeat which David had inflicted upon the Philistines excited Saul to such an extent, that in a fit of insanity he endeavoured to pierce David with his javelin as he was playing before him. The words Ruach Jehovah describe the attack of madness in which Saul threw the javelin at David according to its higher cause, and that, as implied in the words Ruach Jehovah in contrast with Ruach Elohim (Sa1 18:10; Sa1 16:15), as inflicted upon him by Jehovah. The thought expressed is, that the growth of Saul's melancholy was a sign of the hardness of heart to which Jehovah had given him up on account of his impenitence. David happily escaped this javelin also. He slipped away from Saul, so that he hurled the javelin into the wall; whereupon David fled and escaped the same night, i.e., the night after this occurrence. This remark somewhat anticipates the course of the events, as the author, according to the custom of Hebrew historians, gives the result at once, and then proceeds to describe in detail the more exact order of the events. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| And David, &c. - So David continues his good service, tho' it was ill requited. They who are ill paid for doing good, yet must not be weary of well doing, remembering how bountiful a benefactor God is, even to the evil and unthankful. |
8 And there was war [04421] again [03254]: and David [01732] went out [03318], and fought [03898] with the Philistines [06430], and slew [05221] them with a great [01419] slaughter [04347]; and they fled [05127] from [06440] him.
9 And the evil [07451] spirit [07307] from the LORD [03068] was upon Saul [07586], as he sat [03427] in his house [01004] with his javelin [02595] in his hand [03027]: and David [01732] played [05059] with his hand [03027].
10 And Saul [07586] sought [01245] to smite [05221] David [01732] even to the wall [07023] with the javelin [02595]; but he slipped away [06362] out of Saul's [07586] presence [06440], and he smote [05221] the javelin [02595] into the wall [07023]: and David [01732] fled [05127], and escaped [04422] that night [03915].
11 Saul [07586] also sent [07971] messengers [04397] unto David's [01732] house [01004], to watch [08104] him, and to slay [04191] him in the morning [01242]: and Michal [04324] David's [01732] wife [0802] told [05046] him, saying [0559], If thou save [04422] not thy life [05315] to night [03915], to morrow [04279] thou shalt be slain [04191].
12 So Michal [04324] let [03381] David [01732] down [03381] through a window [02474]: and he went [03212], and fled [01272], and escaped [04422].
13 And Michal [04324] took [03947] an image [08655], and laid [07760] it in the bed [04296], and put [07760] a pillow [03523] of goats [05795]' hair for his bolster [04763], and covered [03680] it with a cloth [0899].
14 And when Saul [07586] sent [07971] messengers [04397] to take [03947] David [01732], she said [0559], He is sick [02470].
15 And Saul [07586] sent [07971] the messengers [04397] again to see [07200] David [01732], saying [0559], Bring him up [05927] to me in the bed [04296], that I may slay [04191] him.
16 And when the messengers [04397] were come in [0935], behold, there was an image [08655] in the bed [04296], with a pillow [03523] of goats [05795]' hair for his bolster [04763].
17 And Saul [07586] said [0559] unto Michal [04324], Why hast thou deceived me so [07411], and sent away [07971] mine enemy [0341], that he is escaped [04422]? And Michal [04324] answered [0559] Saul [07586], He said [0559] unto me, Let me go [07971]; why should I kill [04191] thee?
15 And Saul's [07586] servants [05650] said [0559] unto him, Behold now, an evil [07451] spirit [07307] from God [0430] troubleth [01204] thee.
10 And it came to pass on the morrow [04283], that the evil [07451] spirit [07307] from God [0430] came [06743] upon Saul [07586], and he prophesied [05012] in the midst [08432] of the house [01004]: and David [01732] played [05059] with his hand [03027], as at other times [03117]: and there was a javelin [02595] in Saul's [07586] hand [03027].