the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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1 Samuel 24:10
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
bade me: 1 Samuel 24:4, 1 Samuel 26:8
the Lord's: 1 Samuel 26:9, Psalms 105:15
Reciprocal: Exodus 21:13 - God Exodus 22:28 - nor curse Judges 4:7 - deliver 1 Samuel 24:18 - Lord Job 31:31 - the men Psalms 7:4 - I have Psalms 17:3 - shalt Psalms 55:20 - put Psalms 119:78 - without Psalms 131:2 - quieted Lamentations 3:52 - without Lamentations 4:20 - the anointed Ezekiel 20:17 - mine Matthew 5:39 - That
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Behold, this day thine eyes have seen,.... Or may see; there is full proof and evidence of it, and which will be presently shown:
how that the Lord had delivered thee today into mine hand in the cave; from whence they were both just come:
and [some] bade [me] kill thee; some of the men that were with David, some of his officers or principal friends put him upon it, having a fair opportunity, and thinking it no evil, since he was his enemy, and sought his life; or "it said, kill thee"; my heart prompted me to it, that said so at first, as Ben Gersom interprets it; some refer it to God, who in his providence said so, or so it might be understood by David, as if Providence directed him to it, by giving film such an opportunity of doing it:
but [mine eye] spared thee; had pity on him, and notwithstanding the suggestions of friends, and of his own heart at first, or the seeming direction of Providence, yet he had mercy on him, and forbore slaying him:
and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; and king, whose subject I am:
for he [is] the Lord's anointed; the Lord has raised him to this dignity; invested him with the office of a king, and as such I regard him, and therefore have refrained mine hand from him, from hurting him,
