PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — I Samuel
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 188,900 words · 450 reading sections
1 Samuel 20:12
1 Samuel 20:12 Ver. 12. And Jonathan said unto David, O Lord God of Israel,.... Or by the Lord God of Israel, I swear unto thee; for this is the form of the oath, as Jarchi and Kimchi observe: when I have sounded my father about tomorrow any time, [or] the third [day]; searched, inquired, and found out how his dispos…
191 wordsSECTION 3021 Samuel 20:13
1 Samuel 20:13 Ver. 13. The Lord do so and much more to Jonathan,.... Recompense evil more than can be thought of and expressed, should he neglect to inform David of the good disposition of Saul unto him: but if it please my father [to do] thee evil; if he seems determined upon it to take away thy life: then I will …
206 wordsSECTION 3031 Samuel 20:14
1 Samuel 20:14 Ver. 14. And thou shalt not only, while yet I live, show me the kindness of the Lord,.... Such kindness as is well pleasing in the sight of God, and imitate what he shows to men, and which was covenanted, promised, and agreed to in the presence of the Lord, when David and Jonathan entered into covenant …
133 wordsSECTION 3041 Samuel 20:15
1 Samuel 20:15 Ver. 15. But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever,.... His family should partake of it as well as himself: no, not when the Lord hath cut off the enemies of David, everyone from the face of the earth; Saul and his sons, and everyone that should oppose his settlement in the ki…
84 wordsSECTION 3051 Samuel 20:16
1 Samuel 20:16 Ver. 16. So Jonathan made [a covenant] with the house of David,.... Not with David himself only, which was now renewed, but with his family also: [saying], let the Lord even require [it] at the hand of David's enemies; take vengeance on Jonathan, or on any of his posterity, should they break this coven…
95 wordsSECTION 3061 Samuel 20:17
1 Samuel 20:17 Ver. 17. And Jonathan caused David to swear again,.... Or Jonathan added to make David swears {u}; having sworn himself to make a covenant of friendship with David and his family, he moved and insisted on it, that David should swear to keep covenant with him, and his family:because he loved him; it was …
4,571 wordsSECTION 3071 Samuel 21:1
1 Samuel 21:1 INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 21 This chapter relates that David went to Nob, and pretending he was on secret business for the king, got shewbread, and the sword of Goliath, from Ahimelech the priest, 1Sa 21:1; and that passing from thence to Gath, where he was known, through fear feigned himself mad, an…
493 wordsSECTION 3081 Samuel 21:2
1 Samuel 21:2 Ver. 2. And David said unto Ahimelech the priest,.... In reply to his question, and to account for such an appearance he made without an equipage: the king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, let no man know anything of the business thereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee…
289 wordsSECTION 3091 Samuel 21:3
1 Samuel 21:3 Ver. 3. Now therefore what is under thine hand?.... Meaning, what food had he in his house? give [me] five [loaves of] bread in mine hand; to take with him, for him and his servants in such a place: or what there is present; or to be found {g} in the tabernacle; if not five loaves, two, or three, or fo…
86 wordsSECTION 3101 Samuel 21:4
1 Samuel 21:4 Ver. 4. And the priest answered David, and said, [there is] no common bread under mine hand,.... In the tabernacle, though he might have such in his own house; which was common for any man to eat of, even such as were not priests; but he had none there, and David was in haste to be gone because of Doeg, …
241 wordsSECTION 3111 Samuel 21:5
1 Samuel 21:5 Ver. 5. And David answered the priest, and said unto him,.... In reply to the case of the young men his servants, and of himself too, who also was intended by the priest, though out of reverence to him not mentioned: of a truth women [have been] kept from us these three days since I came out; reckoning …
459 wordsSECTION 3121 Samuel 21:6
1 Samuel 21:6 Ver. 6. So the priest gave him hallowed [bread],.... Being satisfied with the account he gave of himself, and his young men, and of the lawfulness of it in case of necessity, acts of mercy being to be preferred to ritual services. Whether he gave him five loaves, as he desired, is not said; but the reaso…
344 wordsSECTION 3131 Samuel 21:7
1 Samuel 21:7 Ver. 7. Now a certain man of the servants of Saul [was] there that day,.... When David came to Nob, and asked bread of the priest, and had it, which this man was an eyewitness of, 1Sa 22:9; detained before the Lord; either because it was sabbath day, and so he might not travel, at least no more than two…
447 wordsSECTION 3141 Samuel 21:8
1 Samuel 21:8 Ver. 8. And David said unto Ahimelech,.... After he had given him some of the loaves of the shewbread: and is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? any weapon, meaning in the tabernacle, and in his keeping, and at his disposal; he knew the sword of Goliath was there, and perhaps had a principa…
191 wordsSECTION 3151 Samuel 21:9
1 Samuel 21:9 Ver. 9. And the priest said, the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah,.... See 1Sa 17:2; behold, it [is here] wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; the garment of the high priest, in which were the Urim and Thummim, and the breastplate, or the linen vestments of the pr…
339 wordsSECTION 3161 Samuel 21:10
1 Samuel 21:10 Ver. 10. And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul,.... He had fled before for fear of him both from his own house, and from Naioth, 1Sa 19:18; but now he fled out of the land of Israel, for fear of him; or it may be the reason of his fear and flight on this day was because of Doeg the Edomite,…
456 wordsSECTION 3171 Samuel 21:11
1 Samuel 21:11 Ver. 11. And the servants of Achish said unto him,.... Who knew who David was, and perceiving that he was respected by Achish: [is] not this David the king of the land? of the land of the Philistines; so some render the words, "the king of this land" {q}; which belongs unto him for his conquest of Goli…
246 wordsSECTION 3181 Samuel 21:12
1 Samuel 21:12 Ver. 12. And David laid up these words in his heart,.... Pondered upon them, and thought them over in his mind, finding that he was known, and his character also, and considered with himself what might be the consequence of this: and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath; lest he should be set aga…
83 wordsSECTION 3191 Samuel 21:13
1 Samuel 21:13 Ver. 13. And he changed his behaviour before them,.... Behaved like a fool, or a madman: or changed his "taste" {s}; which some understand of his reason, acted as if he was deprived of it; and others of his speech, his words and the accent of them, drawled them out, as such persons do:and feigned himsel…
832 wordsSECTION 3201 Samuel 22:1
1 Samuel 22:1 INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 22 This chapter gives us an account of the flight of David from place to place, from Gath to the cave of Adullam, where his relations came to him; from thence to Mizpeh in Moab, where he got leave of the king of Moab for his father and mother to dwell there; and from thence,…
417 wordsSECTION 3211 Samuel 22:2
1 Samuel 22:2 Ver. 2. And everyone [that was] in distress,.... In straitened circumstances, through the oppression of men, through poverty, and afflictive providences in their families: and everyone [that was] in debt; and not able to pay their debts, and whose creditors were pressing upon them: and everyone [that w…
269 wordsSECTION 3221 Samuel 22:3
1 Samuel 22:3 Ver. 3. And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab,.... So called to distinguish it from a place of the same name in the land of Israel; which Junius says is the same with Malle, and signifies a fortified place, and refers to the Apocrypha: "And how that many of them were shut up in Bosora, and Bosor, and …
332 wordsSECTION 3231 Samuel 22:4
1 Samuel 22:4 Ver. 4. And he brought them before the king of Moab,.... Having leave from him for it, and left them with him; so the Targum, "caused them to remain before him:'' and they dwelt with him all the whole time that David was in the hold; either in the cave of Adullam, as some think; or rather at Mizpeh in …
175 wordsSECTION 3241 Samuel 22:5
1 Samuel 22:5 Ver. 5. And the prophet Gad said unto David,.... Who either accompanied him in his exile, or was sent unto him on this account, being one of the company of the prophets, over whom Samuel was president, 1Sa 19:20; abide not in the hold, depart, and get thee into the land of Judah; this seems to confirm i…
255 wordsSECTION 3251 Samuel 22:6
1 Samuel 22:6 Ver. 6. When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that [were] with him,.... That it was known where David was, and what number of men were gathered to him, and that they now openly appeared in the tribe of Judah; for some time Saul had heard nothing of him, but now a report had reached his e…
310 wordsSECTION 3261 Samuel 22:7
1 Samuel 22:7 Ver. 7. Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him,.... He took this opportunity of addressing them in the following manner, upon the report of David being at the head of a certain number of men: hear now, ye Benjamites; for Saul being of the tribe of Benjamin, his courtiers and his bodyguard…
264 wordsSECTION 3271 Samuel 22:8
1 Samuel 22:8 Ver. 8. That all of you have conspired against me,.... For though they had not revolted from him, and been guilty of overt acts of treason, yet since they did not discover to him what he supposed they knew, and showed no concern for the circumstances in which he was, he interpreted this a conspiracy agai…
339 wordsSECTION 3281 Samuel 22:9
1 Samuel 22:9 Ver. 9. Then answered Doeg the Edomite,.... Josephus {d} calls him a Syrian, and so the Septuagint version; see 1Sa 21:7; being full of enmity to David, and willing to curry favour with Saul, and eager of further preferment, which Saul seemed to promise; and being more forward than the rest of his servan…
163 wordsSECTION 3291 Samuel 22:10
1 Samuel 22:10 Ver. 10. And he inquired of the Lord for him,.... Which not being expressed before, some have taken it to be a lie of Doeg's, he being charged with lying by David, Ps 52:3; but it is not at all improbable that David should desire him to inquire of the Lord for him, and that he did; and he seems to ackno…
253 wordsSECTION 3301 Samuel 22:11
1 Samuel 22:11 Ver. 11. Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub,.... Sent messengers to him, and summoned him to appear before him: and all his father's house; the family of Eli, which God had threatened to destroy, and now the time was hastening on: the priests that [were] in Nob; in whic…
124 wordsSECTION 3311 Samuel 22:12
1 Samuel 22:12 Ver. 12. And Saul said, hear now, thou son of Ahitub,.... The charge exhibited against him; in contempt of him, he does not so much as call him by his name, nor give him the title of his office, as high priest; though he was the second person in the kingdom, and to whose office a few years ago the civil…
109 wordsSECTION 3321 Samuel 22:13
1 Samuel 22:13 Ver. 13. And Saul said unto him, why have ye conspired against me,thou, and the son of Jesse?.... No less than treason and rebellion is he charged with, in conjunction with David; the proof follows:in that thou hast given him bread and a sword; the shewbread, and the sword of Goliath, 1Sa 21:6, and so h…
2,243 wordsSECTION 3331 Samuel 23:1
1 Samuel 23:1 INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 23 This chapter gives an account of David's relieving Keilah, when it had like to have fallen into the hands of the Philistines, 1Sa 23:1; and of Saul's design to surprise him there, which David having notice of, and inquiring of the Lord, departed from thence; which when Sa…
316 wordsSECTION 3341 Samuel 23:2
1 Samuel 23:2 Ver. 2. Therefore David inquired of the Lord, saying, shall I go and smite these Philistines?.... For though David was well disposed to serve his country, and was desirous of freeing them from their enemies the Philistines, he might have some doubts in his mind whether it would be right for him to engage…
311 wordsSECTION 3351 Samuel 23:3
1 Samuel 23:3 Ver. 3. And David's men said unto him, behold, we be afraid here in Judah,.... Of Saul and his army falling upon them, and crushing them, though they were in the tribe of Judah, where they had many friends, and in the heart of that tribe: how much more then if we come to Keilah; which, though in the sam…
164 wordsSECTION 3361 Samuel 23:4
1 Samuel 23:4 Ver. 4. Then David inquired of the Lord yet again,.... Not for his own sake, who firmly believed it was the will of God he should go and succeed, but for the sake of his men, and to remove the doubts and fears that hung on their minds: and the Lord answered him, and said, arise, go down to Keilah; immed…
145 wordsSECTION 3371 Samuel 23:5
1 Samuel 23:5 Ver. 5. So David and his men went to Keilah,.... Animated by a commission from God, and a promise of success by him: and fought with the Philistines; encamped before Keilah: and brought away their cattle; which they had brought with them for the support of their army; or having routed them, they pursue…
111 wordsSECTION 3381 Samuel 23:6
1 Samuel 23:6 Ver. 6. And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah,.... Either when he was there, or near the place: [that] he came down with an ephod in his hand; not with a linen ephod on his back, which the priests in common wore, but the ephod with the Urim and Thummim in his ha…
231 wordsSECTION 3391 Samuel 23:7
1 Samuel 23:7 Ver. 7. And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah,.... No doubt it was told him what he came thither for, to relieve it, and deliver it out of the hands of the Philistines, and what success he had; which one would have thought would have reconciled his mind to him, and made him think well of the…
193 wordsSECTION 3401 Samuel 23:8
1 Samuel 23:8 Ver. 8. And Saul called all the people together to war,.... Or "caused [them] to hear" {m} summoned them by an herald, whom he sent into all parts of the kingdom to proclaim war, and require them in his name to attend him; which was the prerogative of a king to do: to go down to Keilah, to besiege David…
89 wordsSECTION 3411 Samuel 23:9
1 Samuel 23:9 Ver. 9. And. David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him,.... That is, plotted and contrived it, formed schemes in order to do him mischief, giving out one thing, and designing another; so he pretended war against the Philistines, but his intention was to come against Keilah, and take Da…
98 wordsSECTION 3421 Samuel 23:10
1 Samuel 23:10 Ver. 10. Then said David,.... By the priest, for it was he that put the questions for and in the name of the inquirer: O Lord God of Israel; the great Jehovah, the covenant God of his people, who always has a merciful regard unto them: thy servant hath certainly heard; had good information of it, on w…
100 wordsSECTION 3431 Samuel 23:11
1 Samuel 23:11 Ver. 11. Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hands? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard?.... That is, if David continued there, which is the supposition all proceeds upon. The questions are not orderly put, as may easily be observed, the last should have been first; which shows some…
196 wordsSECTION 3441 Samuel 23:12
1 Samuel 23:12 Ver. 12. Then said David, will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?.... That is, the lords and great men of the place, the governor of the city, and the heads of it, the chief magistrates in it: and the Lord said, they will deliver [thee] up: that is, provided he stayed there;…
106 wordsSECTION 3451 Samuel 23:13
1 Samuel 23:13 Ver. 13. Then David and his men, [which were] about six hundred,.... Having had an increase of two hundred since he was at the cave of Adullam, 1Sa 22:1, and upon his relief of Keilah, 1Sa 23:5; so that he sustained no loss of men by fighting with the Philistines, but had an addition to his small forces…
196 wordsSECTION 3461 Samuel 23:14
1 Samuel 23:14 Ver. 14. And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds,.... In the wilderness of Ziph, in high and strong rocks there, as it seems to be explained by what follows: and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph; which had its name from a city in the tribe of Judah, of which See Gill on "Jos 1…
156 wordsSECTION 3471 Samuel 23:15
1 Samuel 23:15 Ver. 15. And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life,.... Either he saw him with his bodily eyes from the top of the mountain where he was, 1Sa 23:14; or he perceived, he understood by information given him by his friends, it may be by Jonathan, or by spies he sent to observe his motions: and…
120 wordsSECTION 3481 Samuel 23:16
1 Samuel 23:16 Ver. 16. And Jonathan, Saul's son, arose,.... And came from Gibeah, which, according to Bunting {o}, was twenty two miles from the place where David was: and went to David into the wood: having had intelligence where he was, this being a proper place to have an interview with him privately: and strengt…
2,521 wordsSECTION 3491 Samuel 24:1
1 Samuel 24:1 INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 24 Saul being returned from following the Philistines, renews his pursuit after David, 1Sa 24:1; and they meeting in a cave, where David had the opportunity of taking away the life of Saul, which his men pressed him to, yet only cut off the skirt of his robe, 1Sa 24:3; which…
224 wordsSECTION 3501 Samuel 24:2
1 Samuel 24:2 Ver. 2. Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel,.... Out of his army, with which he had been pursuing the Philistines: and went to seek David, and his men, upon the rocks of the wild goats; which were in the wilderness of Engedi; those rocks were exceeding high and terrible to look at…
184 wordsSECTION 3511 Samuel 24:3
1 Samuel 24:3 Ver. 3. And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where [was] a cave,.... For the sheep to be led into at noon, to shelter them from the heat: such was the cave of Polyphemus, observed by Bochart {z}, in which sheep and goats lay down and slept; See Gill on "Zep 2:6"; and Saul went in to cover his feet;…
468 wordsSECTION 3521 Samuel 24:4
1 Samuel 24:4 Ver. 4. And the men of David said unto him,.... Some of his principal men, who were about him, and near him, such as Joab and Abishai: behold the day of which the Lord said unto thee: now the time was come that he spoke of to him by Samuel, or Gad, or to himself directly: behold, I will deliver thine e…
193 wordsSECTION 3531 Samuel 24:5
1 Samuel 24:5 Ver. 5. And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him,.... His conscience accused him, and he repented of what he had done: because he had cut off Saul's skirt; which though less than what his servants put him upon, and he might have thoughts of doing, yet was considered by him as a great …
72 wordsSECTION 3541 Samuel 24:6
1 Samuel 24:6 Ver. 6. And he said unto his men,.... When he returned and brought the skirt of Saul's garment in his hand; or else he said this before that, though here mentioned, when they moved it to him to dispatch him, as he had a fair opportunity of doing it: God forbid that I should do this thing unto my master,…
165 wordsSECTION 3551 Samuel 24:7
1 Samuel 24:7 Ver. 7. So David stayed his servants with these words,.... Or pacified them, as the Targum, and made them quiet and easy in that he had not slain him, and reconciled their minds to his conduct, and restrained them from laying hands on him, by observing to them, that he was the anointed of the Lord: and …
135 wordsSECTION 3561 Samuel 24:8
1 Samuel 24:8 Ver. 8. David also arose afterward,.... After Saul was gone: and went out of the cave; where he had been all the time that Saul had been in it: and cried after Saul: with a loud voice: my lord the king; by which titles Saul would know that he was called unto: and when Saul looked behind him; to see wh…
97 wordsSECTION 3571 Samuel 24:9
1 Samuel 24:9 Ver. 9. And David said to Saul, wherefore hearest thou men's words,.... The false charges and accusations, that some of Saul's courtiers brought against David, as Doeg the Edomite, and such like sycophants and flatterers, to whom Saul hearkened, and believed what they said, and acted upon it. David chose…
124 wordsSECTION 3581 Samuel 24:10
1 Samuel 24:10 Ver. 10. 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 w…
246 wordsSECTION 3591 Samuel 24:11
1 Samuel 24:11 Ver. 11. Moreover, my father,.... So he was in a natural sense, as having married his daughter; and in a civil sense, as he was a king, and was, or ought to have been, the father of his country, and to treat his subjects as his children, and David among the rest: see, yea see, the skirt of thy robe in …
372 wordsSECTION 3601 Samuel 24:12
1 Samuel 24:12 Ver. 12. The Lord judge between me and thee,.... And make it appear who is in the right, and who in the wrong: and the Lord avenge me of thee; if he continued thus to persecute him: but mine hand shall not be upon thee; to kill thee, though it may be in my power again to do it, as it has been; but thi…
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Public domain; John Gill (1697–1771). Source item is marked Public Domain on Internet Archive.
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