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The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Samuel 24:1-22
DAVID IN THE WILDERNESS OF ENGEDI (1 Samuel 23:29 -35-24). EXPOSITION DAVID SPARES SAUL'S LIFE IN A CAVE (1 Samuel 24:1-7). 1 Samuel 24:1 The wilderness of En-gedi. Finding no safety on the western side of the desert of…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Samuel 26:1-25
DAVID A SECOND TIME SPARES SAUL'S LIFE (1 Samuel 26:1-25.). EXPOSITION SAUL, ON INFORMATION FROM THE ZIPHITES, AGAIN SEEKS TO DESTROY DAVID (1 Samuel 26:1-3). 1 Samuel 26:1 The Ziphites came unto Saul. There are so many…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Samuel 27:1-12
DAVID FINDS A REFUGE AT ZIKLAG (1 Samuel 27:1-12.). EXPOSITION DAVID AGAIN SEEKS PROTECTION AT GATH (1 Samuel 27:1-4). 1 Samuel 27:1 David said in his heart. Hebrew, "to his heart," to himself (see 1 Samuel 1:13). l sha…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Samuel 28:1-25
DOWNFALL AND DEATH OF SAUL (CHS. 28-31.) THE PHILISTINES GATHER TOGETHER FOR WAR. DISTRESS OF SAUL, AND VISIT TO THE WITCH OF ENDOR (1 Samuel 28:1-25.). EXPOSITION ACHISH SUMMONS DAVID TO JOIN HIM IN THE WAR AGAINST ISR…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Samuel 29:1-11
DAVID'S DISMISSAL FROM THE PHILISTINE CAMP (1 Samuel 29:1-11.). EXPOSITION MARCH OF THE PHILISTINE ARMY (1 Samuel 29:1-5). 1 Samuel 29:1 The Philistines gathered, etc. The narrative, broken off for the description of Sa…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Samuel 31:1-13
DEFEAT AND DEATH OF SAUL (1 Samuel 31:1-13.). EXPOSITION SAUL AND HIS SONS SLAIN (1 Samuel 31:1-7). 1 Samuel 31:1, 1 Samuel 31:2 The Philistines fought. Literally it is a participle present, "the Philistines are warring…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Samuel 1:1-27
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 1:1 Now it came to pass. During the last few days events had been crowding fast upon one another. Living as fugitives at Ziklag, in the land of the Philistines, David and his men, unfit for the peace…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Samuel 2:1-32
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 2:1 Unto Hebron. As soon as David had assuaged his grief, his thoughts would naturally turn towards his country. Fuller news would reach him every day respecting the movements of the Philistines, who…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Samuel 3:1-39
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 3:1 There was long war. As Ishbosheth reigned only two years, and as "the house of Saul" is the phrase used, it seems probable that after Ishbosheth's murder, during the five years before David's ele…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Samuel 4:1-12
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 4:1 When Saul's son heard that Abner was dead. The news of Abner's death must have had a doubly depressing effect upon Ishbosheth; for he learned, not only that the mainstay of his kingdom was slain,…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Samuel 5:1-25
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 5:1 Then came all the tribes of Israel. As Ishbosheth reigned only two years, and David's reign at Hebron lasted for seven years and a half, there is an interval of more than five years to be account…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Samuel 6:1-23
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 6:1 And David gathered together. The long subjection to the Philistines was at an end, and David's first care is to bring the ark of Jehovah from Kirjath-jearim to Jerusalem. In this he had a twofold…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Samuel 8:1-18
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 8:1 David smote the Philistines. In the previous chapter we have seen that the empire of David not only marked an era in the development of Israel nationally, but was also the reaching of a new stage…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Samuel 9:1-13
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 9:1 Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul? As Mephibosheth was five years old at his father's death (2 Samuel 4:4), but now had a son (2 Samuel 9:12), a sufficient time must have elapsed…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Samuel 10:1-19
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 10:1 The king of the children of Ammon died. This war is very briefly referred to in 2 Samuel 8:12; but we have now entered upon a narrative, the interest of which is altogether unlike all that has g…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Samuel 11:1-27
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 11:1 After the year was expired; Hebrew and Revised Version, at the return of the year; that is, as Josephus paraphrases it, "the next spring." It seems quite certain that the war with Hadarezer did…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Samuel 12:1-31
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 12:1 Jehovah sent Nathan unto David. Though David had remained unrepentant for nearly a year, for we read in 2 Samuel 12:14 that the child was born, yet we are not to suppose that there had been no c…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Samuel 13:1-39
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 13:1 After this. This phrase, as we have seen on 2 Samuel 10:1, has little chronological force, but the date of the sad event which formed the second stage in David's punishment can be settled with c…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Samuel 14:1-33
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 14:1 The king's heart was toward Absalom. Again there is a diversity of view as to the right rendering. The preposition does not usually mean "toward," but "against," and is so rendered in 2 Samuel 1…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Samuel 16:1-23
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 16:1 Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth. It is the misfortune of troubled times like those in which David found himself, that unscrupulous men use them for selfish purposes. For those in danger have no…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Samuel 17:1-29
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 17:1 Let me now choose out twelve thousand men. The advice of Ahithophel was such as would have made success almost certain. The rebellion had taken David by surprise, and he was quite unprepared to…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Samuel 18:1-33
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 18:1 And David numbered. The verb really means that he organized his army, and arranged it in companies and divisions. As Absalom gathered all Israel to him, there would be some delay; and David, lik…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Samuel 21:1-22
EXPOSItION 2 Samuel 21:1 There was a famine in the days of David; Hebrew, and there was. There is an entire absence of any mark of time to show in what part of David's reign this famine took place. It does not even foll…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Samuel 22:1-51
EXPOSITION DAVID'S PSALM OF THANKSGIVING. This song, which is identical with Psalms 18:1-50; though with many verbal differences, is so universally acknowledged as a genuine composition of King David, that the objection…