the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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1 Samuel 26:21
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I have sinned: 1 Samuel 15:24, 1 Samuel 15:30, 1 Samuel 24:17, Exodus 9:27, Numbers 22:34, Matthew 27:4
I will no: 1 Samuel 27:4
my soul: 1 Samuel 26:24, 1 Samuel 18:30, Psalms 49:8, Psalms 116:15
Reciprocal: Exodus 10:16 - I have Joshua 7:15 - wrought 2 Samuel 19:19 - did perversely 2 Samuel 24:10 - foolishly 2 Kings 1:14 - let my life 1 Chronicles 21:8 - I have done Psalms 7:4 - without Psalms 36:3 - The words Psalms 62:9 - of high Proverbs 19:19 - man Jeremiah 34:11 - General Romans 12:20 - if thine
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Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then said Saul, I have sinned,.... Which is more than he acknowledged before, and yet, it is to be feared he had no true sense of his sin, and real repentance for it; but, like Pharaoh, his guilty conscience for the present forced this confession from him; see Exodus 9:27;
return, my son David: meaning to his own house, or rather to his palace, since he had disposed of his wife to another man:
for I will no more do thee harm: or seek to do it by pursuing him from place to place, as he had done, which had given him a great deal of trouble and fatigue:
because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day; and therefore spared, when he could have taken it away; which showed that his life was dear to him, of great worth and value in his account; and therefore he would neither take it away himself, nor suffer another to do it:
behold, I have played the fool, and erred exceedingly: in seeking after his life, and pursuing him again, when he had such a convincing proof of his sincerity and faithfulness, and of his cordial affection for him, when he only cut off the skirts of his garment in the cave, and spared his life.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Samuel 26:21. I have sinned — Perhaps the word חטאתי chatathi, "I have sinned," should be read, I have erred, or, have been mistaken. I have taken thee to be a very different man from what I find thee to be. Taken literally it was strictly true. He often purposed the spilling of David's blood; and thus, again and again, sinned against his life.
