1Sa 26:1-7 - Commentary

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Text -- 1 Samuel 26:1-7 (NET)

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David Spares Saul’s Life Again

26:1 The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Isn’t David hiding on the hill of Hakilah near Jeshimon?” 26:2 So Saul arose and went down to the desert of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand select men of Israel, to look for David in the desert of Ziph. 26:3 Saul camped by the road on the hill of Hakilah near Jeshimon, but David was staying in the desert. When he realized that Saul had come to the desert to find him, 26:4 David sent scouts and verified that Saul had indeed arrived. 26:5 So David set out and went to the place where Saul was camped. David saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general in command of his army, were sleeping. Now Saul was lying in the entrenchment, and the army was camped all around him. 26:6 David said to Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, “Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?” Abishai replied, “I will go down with you.” 26:7 So David and Abishai approached the army at night and found Saul lying asleep in the entrenchment with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. Abner and the army were lying all around him.

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Names, People and Places:

· Abishai the son of Zeruiah, David's sister; brother of Joab

· Abner a man of Benjamin in Saul and David's time

· Ahimelech priest (Eli Ithamar) of Nob, whom Saul killed; Ahimelech I,a priest, Ahimelech II; son of Abiathar son of Ahimelech I,a man who was part of David's fugitive band; a Hittite

· David a son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel,son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel

· Gibeah a town of Judah 8 km north of Jerusalem, 5 km east of Gibeon (SMM)

· Hachilah a hill between En-Gedi and Ziph

· Hittite a person/people living in the land of Syro-Palestine

· Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel

· Jeshimon a region of wilderness in Judea SE of Hebron (ZD)

· Joab son of Zeruiah, David's sister; commander of King David's army,son of Seraiah son of Kenaz of Judah; grand nephew of Caleb of Moses' time,a man whose descendants returned from exile in Babylon,ancestor of a family group who returned from exile headed by Obadiah the son of Jehiel

· Ner a man of Benjamin; father of Kish, the father of King Saul

· Saul the sixth king of Edom,son of Simeon and a Canaanite woman,son of Uzziah of Kohath son of Levi

· Zeruiah daughter of Jesse; sister of David; mother of Abishai, Asahel and Joab

· Ziph son of Jehallelel a descendant of Judah

· Ziphites residents of the town of Ziph