1Sa 25:21-22, 33-34, 1Ki 20:10-11, Psa 10:5, Pro 13:10, 17:14, 25:8-10 | TSK | STEP

1 Samuel 25:21-22

Surely.

13; Job 30:8; Ps 37:8; Eph 4:26,31; 1Th 5:15; 1Pe 2:21-23; 3:9

he hath requited.

Ge 44:4; Ps 35:12; 38:20; 109:3-5; Pr 17:13; Jer 18:20; Ro 12:21

So and more.Nothing can justify this conduct of David, which was rash, unjust, and cruel in the extreme. David himself condemns it, and thanks God for being prevented from executing this evil. (ver. 32-34.)

3:17; 14:44; 20:13,16; Ru 1:17

if I leave.

any that pisseth, etc.This seems to have been a proverbial expression among the Israelites; and may with the utmost propriety be read "any male."

1Ki 14:10; 16:11; 21:21; 2Ki 9:8

1 Samuel 25:33-34

blessed.

Ps 141:5; Pr 9:9; 17:10; 25:12; 27:21; 28:23

which hast.

avenging.

26,31; 24:19; 26:9,10

kept me back.

hasted.

18; 11:11; Jos 10:6,9

there had.

1 Kings 20:10-11

The gods.

19:2; Ac 23:12

if the dust.

2Sa 17:12,13; 2Ki 19:23,24; Isa 10:13,14; 37:24,25

follow me. Heb. are at my feet.

Ex 11:8; *marg:

Jud 4:10

Let not him, etc.This was no doubt a proverbial mode of expression. Jonathan renders it: "Let not him who girds himself, and goes down to battle, boast as one who has conquered and returned from it."

1Sa 14:6,12,13; 17:44-47; Pr 27:1; Ec 9:11; Isa 10:15,16

Mt 26:33-35,75

harness.The word harness is an obsolete word for armour, derived from the French {harnois;} see Ex 13:18.