1 Samuel 26:19

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Contextual Overview

Bible Verse Review
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let my lord: 1 Samuel 25:24, Genesis 44:18

stirred: 1 Samuel 16:14-23, 1 Samuel 18:10, 2 Samuel 16:11, 2 Samuel 24:1, 1 Kings 22:22, 1 Chronicles 21:1

accept: Heb. smell, Genesis 8:21, Leviticus 26:31, Psalms 119:1-8

cursed: Proverbs 6:16-19, Proverbs 30:10, Galatians 1:8, Galatians 1:9, Galatians 5:12, 2 Timothy 4:14

they have driven: Deuteronomy 4:27, Deuteronomy 4:28, Joshua 22:25-27, Psalms 42:1, Psalms 42:2, Psalms 120:5, Isaiah 60:5, Romans 14:15

abiding: Heb. cleaving

the inheritance: 2 Samuel 14:16, 2 Samuel 20:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 16:8 - I flee Genesis 20:9 - What hast Exodus 32:21 - General Deuteronomy 27:15 - Cursed be Judges 5:23 - Curse ye Judges 17:2 - cursedst 1 Samuel 24:9 - General 1 Kings 11:14 - the Lord 1 Kings 16:2 - hast made my people 2 Chronicles 21:16 - the Lord 2 Chronicles 36:22 - the Lord stirred Psalms 7:3 - if I Psalms 27:12 - false Psalms 37:3 - so shalt Proverbs 28:10 - causeth Jeremiah 43:5 - took Micah 2:9 - from their children

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant,.... Whether David waited for an answer to his question is not certain; probably he did, and observing none returned, desired audience of what he had further to say:

if the Lord have stirred thee up against me; if he had put it into his heart to persecute him after this manner, for some sin he had committed against him, though not against Saul: did that appear to be the case,

let him accept an offering; my offering, as the Targum; or my prayer, as Jarchi; I would offer a sin offering according to the law, to make atonement for my offence, and might hope it would be accepted; or I would make my supplication to God, and entreat him to forgive mine iniquity, and so an issue be put to these troubles; or should it be a capital crime deserving of death he was guilty of, he was content to die, and satisfy for his fault in that way; or if both of them had sinned, in any respect, he proposed to join in an acceptable sacrifice to God, and so reconciliation be made, and matters adjusted in such a religious way; if it was the evil spirit from the Lord that had entered into Saul, or God had suffered a melancholy disorder to seize him, which had put him upon those measures, let an offering agreeable to the will of God be offered, or supplication made for the removal of it:

but if [they be] the children of men; that incited him to such violent methods, as Abner his general, or Doeg the Edomite, and others:

cursed [be] they before the Lord; an imprecation of the vengeance of God upon them:

for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the Lord; meaning not from his own house and fatally, nor from the palace of Saul, but from the land of Canaan the Lord had given to his people Israel for an inheritance, and from the worship of God in it, which made it dear and precious to him; he knew if Saul went on pursuing him in this manner, he mast be obliged to quit the land, and go into a foreign country, as he quickly did; so the Targum renders it the inheritance of the people of the Lord: by being driven out of the land which was their inheritance, he should be deprived of their company and conversation, and of all social worship; the consideration of which was cutting to him, and caused the above imprecation from him on those who were concerned in it, and who in effect by their actions were

saying, go, serve other gods; for by being forced to go into an idolatrous country, he would be in the way of temptation, and be liable to be corrupted by ill examples, and to be persuaded and enticed into idolatrous practices; and if he was kept from them it would be no thanks to them, they did all they could to lead him into them; and if he was preserved, it would be owing to the power and grace of God; the Targum is,

"go David among the people that worship idols;''

the Jews have a saying, that he that dwells without the land of Israel, it is as if he had no God and as if he served an idol q.

q T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 110. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If the Lord have stirred thee up - The meaning is clear from the preceding history. “An evil spirit from God troubling him” was the beginning of the persecution. And this evil spirit was sent in punishment of Saul’s sin 1 Samuel 16:1, 1 Samuel 16:14. If the continued persecution was merely the consequence of this evil spirit continuing to vex Saul, David advises Saul to seek God’s pardon, and, as a consequence, the removal of the evil spirit, by offering a sacrifice. But if the persecution was the consequence of the false accusations of slanderers, then “cursed” be his enemies who, by their actions, drove David out from the only land where Yahweh was worshipped, and forced him to take refuge in the country of pagan and idolaters (compare Deuteronomy 4:27; Deuteronomy 28:36).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 26:19. Let him accept an offering — If God have stirred thee up against me, why, then, let him deliver my life into thy hand, and accept it as a sacrifice. But as the word is מנחה minchah, a gratitude-offering, perhaps the sense may be this: Let God accept a gratitude-offering from thee, for having purged the land of a worker of iniquity; for, were I not such, God would never stir thee up against me.

But if they be the children of men — If men have, by false representations, lies, and slanders, stirred thee up against an innocent man, then let them be cursed before the Lord. If I am guilty, I deserve to die; if not, those who seek my life should be destroyed.

Saying, Go, serve other gods. — His being obliged to leave the tabernacle, and the place where the true worship of God was performed, and take refuge among idolaters, said in effect, Go, serve other gods.