1 Samuel 24

Treated in 10 passages across the library.

  • 24:16 When David had finished saying this to Saul, Saul said, "Is that your voice, David my son?" And Saul wept aloud. 5
  • 24:6 He told his men, "The LORD forbid that I do this to my lord, the LORD's anointed, and raise my hand against him! He is the LORD's anointed." 3
  • 24:4 David's men said to him, "This is the day the LORD spoke of when he told you, 'I am going to give your enemy into your hand, and you may do to him whatever you think best.'" Then David got up and quietly cut off the corner of Saul's robe. 1
  • 24:5 Afterward David's conscience troubled him because he had cut off the corner of Saul's robe. 1
  • 24:17 He said to David, "You are more righteous than I am. You have repaid me with good, while I have repaid you with evil. 1
  • 24:18 Today you have shown how well you have treated me: the LORD handed me over to you, and you did not kill me. 1
  • 24:19 Who ever finds an enemy and lets him go away unharmed? May the LORD reward you well for the way you have treated me today. 1

Open Word Bible

  1. Communion with God · John Owen

    Other consequential affections cites 1 Sam. xxiv. 4–6

    …grace, recovers the soul from the very borders of sin. So it was in the case of David, 1 Sam. xxiv. 4–6. “He was almost gone,” as he speaks himself; “his feet had well-nigh slipped.” The…

  2. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    The best things work for good to the godly cites 1 Sam. xxiv. 16

    …Saul’s heart. “Is this thy voice, my son David? and Saul lift up his voice, and wept” (1 Sam. xxiv. 16). Such a melting influence has God’s mercy; it makes the eyes drop with tears of love.…

  3. He Holds My Tomorrows · Gareth Evans

    Isaac and Jacob cites 1 Samuel 24:6

    …him, David still would wait, saying, “I will not lay my hand against the Lord’s elect” (1 Samuel 24:6). There was to be no politicking with him. That is the way of the world - it is not the…

  4. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.6 The Sixth Commandment cites 1 Sam 24: 5

    …blood. David’s heart smote him because he did but cut off the lap of king Saul’s garment. 1 Sam 24: 5. How would David’s heart have smitten him if he had cut off Saul’s head? (4) To shed the…

  5. Tell Me the Story – Book 3: Kings and Prophets · Ochorus Originals

    David Spares the King cites 1 Samuel 24:6

    “May I never lift my hand against him, since he is the LORD’s anointed.” — 1 Samuel 24:6 David had to run away from King Saul and hide in the wild hill country. Men came to join…

  6. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    VII. Persons having religious affections of many kinds, accompanying one another, is not sufficient to determine whether they have any gracious affections or no cites 1 Sam. 24:16

    …as in Pharaoh, Saul, and Ahab, and the children of Israel in the wilderness, Exod. 9:27, 1 Sam. 24:16, 17, and 26:21, 1 Kings 21:27, Numb. 14:39, 40; and of the fear of God, as in the…

  7. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    VIII. Nothing can certainly be determined concerning the nature of the affections, by this, that comforts and joys seem to follow awakenings and convictions of conscience, in a certain order cites 1 Sam. 24:16

    …And at another time, “I have sinned, I have played the fool, I have erred exceedingly,” 1 Sam. 24:16, 17, and chap. 26:21. And yet Saul seems then to have had very little of the influences…

  8. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Christ's Humiliation in His Incarnation cites I Sam 24:16

    …us pray for our enemies, and conquer them by love. David’s kindness melted Saul’s heart. I Sam 24:16. A frozen heart will be thawed with the fire of love. (2:) Be like Christ in grace. He…

  9. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 20 — Of Civil Government cites 1 Sam. 24:6

    …I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the Lord’s anointed” (1 Sam. 24:6, 11). Again,—“Who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord’s anointed, and be…

  10. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    X. Nothing can be certainly known of the nature of religious affections by this, that they much dispose persons with their mouths to praise and glorify God cites 1 Sam. 24:16-19

    …and admiration, to magnify and extol David's unmerited and unexampled kindness to him, 1 Sam. 24:16-19, and 26:21, and from no higher principle than that from whence Nebuchadnezzar was…