geneva - 1Samuel:26-27

geneva@1Samuel:26:1 @ Againe the Ziphims came vnto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doeth not Dauid hide him selfe in the hill of Hachilah before Ieshimon?

geneva@1Samuel:26:2 @ Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand (note:)That is, of the most skilful and valiant soldiers.(:note) chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

geneva@1Samuel:26:3 @ And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Ieshimon by the way side. Now Dauid abode in the wildernesse, and he sawe that Saul came after him into the wildernesse.

geneva@1Samuel:26:4 @ (For Dauid had sent out spies, and vnderstood, that Saul was come in very deede)

geneva@1Samuel:26:5 @ Then Dauid arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched, and when Dauid beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the sonne of Ner which was his chiefe captaine, (for Saul lay in the fort, and the people pitched round about him)

geneva@1Samuel:26:6 @ Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the (note:)Who was a stranger, and not an Israelite.(:note) Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Who afterward was David's chief captain. Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.

geneva@1Samuel:26:7 @ So Dauid and Abishai came downe to the people by night: and beholde, Saul lay sleeping within the fort, and his speare did sticke in the ground at his head: and Abner and the people lay round about him.

geneva@1Samuel:26:8 @ Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not [smite] him the (note:)Meaning, he would make him sure at one stroke.(:note) second time.

geneva@1Samuel:26:9 @ And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand (note:)That is, in his own private cause: for Jehu slew two kings at God's appointment, (2Ki_9:24).(:note) against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?

geneva@1Samuel:26:10 @ Moreouer Dauid said, As the Lord liueth, eyther the Lorde shall smite him, or his day shall come to dye, or he shall descend into battel, and perish.

geneva@1Samuel:26:11 @ The Lorde keepe mee from laying mine hand vpon the Lordes anointed: but, I pray thee, take now the speare that is at his head, and the pot of water, and let vs goe hence.

geneva@1Samuel:26:12 @ So Dauid tooke the speare and the pot of water from Sauls head, and they gate them away, and no man saw it, nor marked it, neither did any awake, but they were all asleepe: for the Lorde had sent a dead sleepe vpon them.

geneva@1Samuel:26:13 @ Then Dauid went vnto the other side, and stoode on the toppe of an hill a farre off, a great space being betweene them.

geneva@1Samuel:26:14 @ And Dauid cryed to the people, and to Abner the sonne of Ner, saying, Hearest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered, & said, Who art thou that cryest to the King?

geneva@1Samuel:26:15 @ And David said to Abner, [Art] not thou a [valiant] (note:)Esteemed most valiant and fit to save the king?(:note) man? and who [is] like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.

geneva@1Samuel:26:16 @ This is not well done of thee: as the Lord liueth, ye are worthy to dye, because ye haue not kept your master the Lordes Anointed: and now see where the Kings speare is, and the pot of water that was at his head.

geneva@1Samuel:26:17 @ And Saul knew David's voice, and said, [Is] this thy voice, (note:)By this it appears, that the hypocrite persecuted David against his own conscience and contrary to his promise.(:note) my son David? And David said, [It is] my voice, my lord, O king.

geneva@1Samuel:26:18 @ And he sayde, Wherefore doeth my lorde thus persecute his seruant? for what haue I done? or what euill is in mine hand?

geneva@1Samuel:26:19 @ Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him (note:)Let his anger toward us be pacified by a sacrifice.(:note) accept an offering: but if [they be] the children of men, cursed [be] they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve As much as lay in them, they compelled him to idolatry because they forced him to flee to the idolaters. other gods.

geneva@1Samuel:26:20 @ Nowe therefore let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the Lorde: for the King of Israel is come out to seeke a flea, as one would hunt a partridge in the mountaines.

geneva@1Samuel:26:21 @ Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was (note:)Because you saved my life this day.(:note) precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.

geneva@1Samuel:26:22 @ Then Dauid answered, and saide, Beholde the Kings speare, let one of the yong men come ouer and set it.

geneva@1Samuel:26:23 @ The LORD render to every man his (note:)Thus he protests his innocency toward Saul, not defending his justice in the sight of God, in whose presence none is righteous, (Psa_14:3, Psa_130:3).(:note) righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into [my] hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed.

geneva@1Samuel:26:24 @ And beholde, like as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes: so let my life be set by in the eyes of the Lord, that he may deliuer me out of all tribulation.

geneva@1Samuel:26:25 @ Then Saul said to David, Blessed [be] thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great [things], and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his (note:)To Gibeah of Benjamin.(:note) place.

geneva@1Samuel:27:1 @ And David said in his heart, I shall now (note:)David distrusts God's protection and therefore flees to the idolaters, who were enemies to God's people.(:note) perish one day by the hand of Saul: [there is] nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

geneva@1Samuel:27:2 @ Dauid therefore arose, and he, and the sixe hundreth men that were with him, went vnto Achish the sonne of Maoch King of Gath.

geneva@1Samuel:27:3 @ And David (note:)Thus God by his providence changes the enemies hearts, and makes them favour his in their need.(:note) dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, [even] David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.

geneva@1Samuel:27:4 @ And it was tolde Saul that Dauid was fled to Gath: so he sought no more for him.

geneva@1Samuel:27:5 @ And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, (note:)Let your officers appoint me a place.(:note) let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

geneva@1Samuel:27:6 @ Then Achish gaue him Ziklag that same day: therefore Ziklag pertaineth vnto the kings of Iudah vnto this day.

geneva@1Samuel:27:7 @ And the time that Dauid dwelt in the countrey of the Philistims, was foure moneths and certaine dayes.

geneva@1Samuel:27:8 @ And David and his men went up, and invaded the (note:)These were the wicked Canaanites, whom God had appointed to be destroyed.(:note) Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those [nations were] of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.

geneva@1Samuel:27:9 @ And Dauid smote the lande, and left neither man nor woman aliue, and tooke sheepe, & oxen, and asses, and camels, and apparell, and returned and came to Achish.

geneva@1Samuel:27:10 @ And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the (note:)A family of the tribe of Judah, (1Ch_2:9).(:note) Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.

geneva@1Samuel:27:11 @ And Dauid saued neither man nor woman aliue, to bring them to Gath, saying, Lest they should tel on vs, and say, So did Dauid, and so will be his maner all the while that he dwelleth in the countrey of the Philistims.

geneva@1Samuel:27:12 @ And Achish beleeued Dauid, saying, He hath made his people of Israel vtterly to abhorre him: therefore he shalbe my seruant for euer.

geneva@1Samuel:28:1 @ And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, (note:)Though it was a great grief to David to fight against the people of God, yet such was his infirmity, he did not dare deny him.(:note) Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men.