1Sa 26:6 | KingComments | STEP | David does not go for rumors but wants to know for sure if it is true that Saul is looking for him again. That is why he sends out spies. The messages turn out to be correct. Then David takes the initiative to go to Saul. David’s approach this time is different than in 1 Samuel 24. He does not flee further but goes toward Saul. What happens next is remarkably like what we read in 1 Samuel 24. Yet he exposes himself to much greater dangers here. In the first case Saul, without knowing it, came close to David. It was an accidental ‘meeting’. Here David goes to Saul himself. Saul is not alone here, but is in the circle of the camp, surrounded by his soldiers. What David does seems overconfident, but God is with him, for He lets fall a sound sleep upon Saul and all who are with him ( ). With his action David puts his life again at risk. He must have a great deal of peace in his heart to venture this adventure. He asks two men who will go down with him. Abishai has the same courage as David and offers to join him. The sense of this action of David seems to be a new attempt to prove his innocence. Striking is again the remark about Saul’s spear, which says that Saul stuck the spear “in the ground at his head”. He has the spear within reach to seize it at the slightest threat of danger. It is the spear with which he has tried to kill David several times.

‏ 1 Samuel 26:6

David Goes to Saul

David does not go for rumors but wants to know for sure if it is true that Saul is looking for him again. That is why he sends out spies. The messages turn out to be correct. Then David takes the initiative to go to Saul. David’s approach this time is different than in 1 Samuel 24. He does not flee further but goes toward Saul. What happens next is remarkably like what we read in 1 Samuel 24.

Yet he exposes himself to much greater dangers here. In the first case Saul, without knowing it, came close to David. It was an accidental ‘meeting’. Here David goes to Saul himself. Saul is not alone here, but is in the circle of the camp, surrounded by his soldiers. What David does seems overconfident, but God is with him, for He lets fall a sound sleep upon Saul and all who are with him (1Sam 26:12).

With his action David puts his life again at risk. He must have a great deal of peace in his heart to venture this adventure. He asks two men who will go down with him. Abishai has the same courage as David and offers to join him. The sense of this action of David seems to be a new attempt to prove his innocence.

Striking is again the remark about Saul’s spear, which says that Saul stuck the spear “in the ground at his head”. He has the spear within reach to seize it at the slightest threat of danger. It is the spear with which he has tried to kill David several times.