2 Samuel 1:14

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him: ¹¹ David and his men tore their clothes in sorrow when they heard the news. ¹¹ Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him: ¹¹ Then David tore his clothes to show his sorrow, and all the men with him did also. ¹¹ David then grabbed his own clothes and tore them, as did all the men who were with him. ¹¹ Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that [were] with him: ¹¹ Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and likewise all the men who were with him: ¹¹Then David grasped his own clothes and tore them [in mourning]; so did all the men who were with him. ¹¹ Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so did all the men who were with him. ¹¹ Forsothe Dauid took and to-rente hise clothis, and the men that weren with hym;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

How: Numbers 12:8, 1 Samuel 31:4, 2 Peter 2:10

stretch forth: 1 Samuel 24:6, 1 Samuel 26:9, Psalms 105:15

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 12:3 - his anointed 1 Samuel 26:11 - that I should 1 Chronicles 10:4 - he was Lamentations 4:20 - the anointed

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the sky and the earth.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1
In the bigynnyng God made of nouyt heuene and erthe.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth --

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David said unto him, how, wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand,.... By which it should seem that he did more than stand upon him, and press his body, that the spear might pierce through him, but that he drew his sword, and slew him; so David understood him, and is the sense of the phrase in 1 Samuel 17:51;

to destroy the Lord's anointed? a reason why David did not destroy him, when it was in the power of his hands, and which he made use of to dissuade others from it; and here charges it not only as a criminal, but a daring action in this young man, at which he expresses his admiration how he could do it; hereby representing it as a very shocking and detestable action; see 1 Samuel 24:6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Whether David believed the Amalekite’s story, or not, his anger was equally excited, and the fact that the young man was an Amalekite, was not calculated to calm or check it. That David’s temper was hasty, we know from 1 Samuel 25:13, 1 Samuel 25:32-34.