1Sa 24:10-15, 25:28-29, 26:18-20, Psa 35:7, 19, 69:4, 109:3, 119:161 | TSK | STEP

bound.The metaphors in this verse are derived from the consideration, that things of value are collected together, and often tied up in bundles, like sheaves of corn, to prevent their being scattered and lost, and that whatever is put into a sling is not intended to be preserved, but to be thrown away.

2:9; Ge 15:1; De 33:29; Ps 66:9; 116:15; Mal 3:17; Mt 10:29,30

with the Lord.

Joh 10:27-30; 14:19; 17:21,23; Col 3:3,4; 1Pe 1:5

sling out.

Jer 10:18

as out of the middle of a sling. Heb. in the midst of thebow of a sling.

1 Samuel 26:18-20

Wherefore.

24:9,11-14; Ps 7:3-5; 35:7; 69:4

what have I.

17:29; Joh 8:46; 10:32; 18:23

let my lord.

25:24; Ge 44:18

stirred.

16:14-23; 18:10; 2Sa 16:11; 24:1; 1Ki 22:22; 1Ch 21:1

accept. Heb. smell.

Ge 8:21; Le 26:31; Ps 119:1-8

cursed.

Pr 6:16-19; 30:10; Ga 1:8,9; 5:12; 2Ti 4:14

they have driven.

De 4:27,28; Jos 22:25-27; Ps 42:1,2; 120:5; Isa 60:5; Ro 14:15

abiding. Heb. cleaving. the inheritance.

2Sa 14:16; 20:19

let not my.

2:9; 25:29

the king.

24:14; Mt 26:47,55

a flea.{Parosh,} (in Arabic {borghooth,} Syriac, {poorthano,}) the well known little contemptible and troublesome insect, the flea, seems to be so called from its agility in leaping and skipping, from {para,} "free," and {raash,} "to leap, bound." David, by comparing himself to this insect, seems to import, that while it would cost Saul much pains to catch him, he would obtain but very little advantage from it.

a partridge.{Korai} certainly denotes the partridge, which is called in Arabic, {kiräa.} It seems to be so called from the cry or {cur} which it utters when calling its young.