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Selected Verse: 1 Samuel 24:8 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
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| 1Sa 24:8 |
Strong Concordance |
David [01732] also arose [06965] afterward, and went out [03318] of the cave [04631], and cried [07121] after [0310] Saul [07586], saying [0559], My lord [0113] the king [04428]. And when Saul [07586] looked [05027] behind [0310] him, David [01732] stooped [06915] with his face [0639] to the earth [0776], and bowed [07812] himself. |
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King James |
David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
HE URGES THEREBY HIS INNOCENCY. (Sa1 24:8-15)
David also arose . . . and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul--The closeness of the precipitous cliffs, though divided by deep wadies, and the transparent purity of the air enable a person standing on one rock to hear distinctly the words uttered by a speaker standing on another (Jdg 9:7). The expostulation of David, followed by the visible tokens he furnished of his cherishing no evil design against either the person or the government of the king, even when he had the monarch in his power, smote the heart of Saul in a moment and disarmed him of his fell purpose of revenge. He owned the justice of what David said, acknowledged his own guilt, and begged kindness to his house. He seems to have been naturally susceptible of strong, and, as in this instance, of good and grateful impressions. The improvement of his temper, indeed, was but transient--his language that of a man overwhelmed by the force of impetuous emotions and constrained to admire the conduct, and esteem the character, of one whom he hated and dreaded. But God overruled it for ensuring the present escape of David. Consider his language and behavior. This language--"a dead dog," "a flea," terms by which, like Eastern people, he strongly expressed a sense of his lowliness and the entire committal of his cause to Him who alone is the judge of human actions, and to whom vengeance belongs, his steady repulse of the vindictive counsels of his followers; the relentings of heart which he felt even for the apparent indignity he had done to the person of the Lord's anointed; and the respectful homage he paid the jealous tyrant who had set a price on his head--evince the magnanimity of a great and good man, and strikingly illustrate the spirit and energy of his prayer "when he was in the cave" (Psa 142:1). |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| But when Saul had gone out of the cave, David went out, and called, "My lord king," that when the king looked round he might expostulate with him, with the deepest reverence, but yet with earnest words, that should sharpen his conscience as to the unfounded nature of his suspicion and the injustice of his persecution. "Why dost thou hearken to words of men, who say, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt? Behold, this day thine eyes have been that Jehovah hath given thee to-day into my hand in the cave, and they said (אמר, thought) to kill thee, and I spared thee:" lit. it (mine eye) spared thee (cf. Gen 45:20; Deu 7:16, etc., which show that עיני is to be supplied). |
1 Maschil [04905] of David [01732]; A Prayer [08605] when he was in the cave [04631]. I cried [02199] unto the LORD [03068] with my voice [06963]; with my voice [06963] unto the LORD [03068] did I make my supplication [02603].
7 And when they told [05046] it to Jotham [03147], he went [03212] and stood [05975] in the top [07218] of mount [02022] Gerizim [01630], and lifted up [05375] his voice [06963], and cried [07121], and said [0559] unto them, Hearken [08085] unto me, ye men [01167] of Shechem [07927], that God [0430] may hearken [08085] unto you.
8 David [01732] also arose [06965] afterward, and went out [03318] of the cave [04631], and cried [07121] after [0310] Saul [07586], saying [0559], My lord [0113] the king [04428]. And when Saul [07586] looked [05027] behind [0310] him, David [01732] stooped [06915] with his face [0639] to the earth [0776], and bowed [07812] himself.
9 And David [01732] said [0559] to Saul [07586], Wherefore hearest [08085] thou men's [0120] words [01697], saying [0559], Behold, David [01732] seeketh [01245] thy hurt [07451]?
10 Behold, this day [03117] thine eyes [05869] have seen [07200] how that the LORD [03068] had delivered [05414] thee to day [03117] into mine hand [03027] in the cave [04631]: and some bade [0559] me kill [02026] thee: but mine eye spared [02347] thee; and I said [0559], I will not put forth [07971] mine hand [03027] against my lord [0113]; for he is the LORD'S [03068] anointed [04899].
11 Moreover, my father [01], see [07200], yea, see [07200] the skirt [03671] of thy robe [04598] in my hand [03027]: for in that I cut off [03772] the skirt [03671] of thy robe [04598], and killed [02026] thee not, know [03045] thou and see [07200] that there is neither evil [07451] nor transgression [06588] in mine hand [03027], and I have not sinned [02398] against thee; yet thou huntest [06658] my soul [05315] to take [03947] it.
12 The LORD [03068] judge [08199] between me and thee, and the LORD [03068] avenge [05358] me of thee: but mine hand [03027] shall not be upon thee.
13 As saith [0559] the proverb [04912] of the ancients [06931], Wickedness [07562] proceedeth [03318] from the wicked [07563]: but mine hand [03027] shall not be upon thee.
14 After [0310] whom is the king [04428] of Israel [03478] come out [03318]? after [0310] whom dost thou pursue [07291]? after [0310] a dead [04191] dog [03611], after [0310] a [0259] flea [06550].
15 The LORD [03068] therefore be judge [01781], and judge [08199] between me and thee, and see [07200], and plead [07378] my cause [07379], and deliver [08199] me out of thine hand [03027].
16 And thou shalt consume [0398] all the people [05971] which the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] shall deliver [05414] thee; thine eye [05869] shall have no pity [02347] upon them: neither shalt thou serve [05647] their gods [0430]; for that will be a snare [04170] unto thee.
20 Also [05869] regard [02347] not your stuff [03627]; for the good [02898] of all the land [0776] of Egypt [04714] is yours.