1 Samuel 26:12 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 26:12

So David took the spear and water jug by Saul’s head, and they departed. No one saw them or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up; they all remained asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.

BSB

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ASV

So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s head; and they gat them away: and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Jehovah was fallen upon them.

KJV

So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them.

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

David took the spear and the cruse - The spear, we have already seen, was the emblem of power and regal dignity. But it is usual, in Arab camps, for every man to have his lance stuck in the ground beside him, that he may be ready for action in a moment. The cruse of water resembled, in some measure, the canteens of our soldiers.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It was a deep sleep from the Lord, who has the command of the powers of nature, and makes them to serve his purposes as he pleases. Whom God will disable, or destroy, he binds up with a spirit of slumber, Rom. xi. How helpless do Saul and all his forces lie, all, in effect, disarmed and chained! and yet nothing is done to them; they are only rocked asleep.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Besides, he was the sovereign; Though God had rejected him from the kingdom, it was in every way the best and most dutiful course, instead of precipitating his fall by imbruing their hands in his blood and thereby contracting the guilt of a great crime, to wait the awards of that retributive providence which sooner or later would take him off by some sudden and mortal blow.

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּקַּח֩	vai.yi.Kach	and he took	H3947 →
דָּוִ֨ד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
אֶֽת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַחֲנִ֜ית	ha.cha.Nit	the spear	H2595 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
צַפַּ֤חַת	tza.Pa.chat	[the] jug of	H6835 →
הַמַּ֙יִם֙	ha.Ma.yim	<the> water	H4325 →
מֵרַאֲשֹׁתֵ֣י	me.ra.'a.sho.Tei	[at the] head of	H7226 →
שָׁא֔וּל	sha.'Ul	Saul	H7586 →
וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ	vai.ye.le.Khu	and they went	H1980 →
לָהֶ֑ם	la.Hem	for <the> themselves
וְאֵ֣ין	ve.'Ein	and there not	H369 →
רֹאֶה֩	ro.'Eh	[was one who] saw	H7200 →
וְאֵ֨ין	ve.'Ein	and there not	H369 →
יוֹדֵ֜עַ	yo.De.a'	[was one who] knew	H3045 →
וְאֵ֣ין	ve.'Ein	and there not	H369 →
מֵקִ֗יץ	me.Kitz	[was one who] awoke	H6974 →
כִּ֤י	ki	for	H3588 →
כֻלָּם֙	khu.Lam	all of them	H3605 →
יְשֵׁנִ֔ים	ye.she.Nim	[were] sleeping	H3463 →
כִּ֚י	ki	for	H3588 →
תַּרְדֵּמַ֣ת	tar.de.Mat	<the> deep sleep of	H8639 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
נָפְלָ֖ה	na.fe.Lah	it had fallen	H5307 →
עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃	'a.lei.Hem	on them	H5921 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 15:12
As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.
leads to
- Job 33:15
  In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 2:21
  So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.
Through
Isaiah 29:10
For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.
leads to
- Romans 11:8
  as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”
- Isaiah 44:18
  They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
Through
1 Samuel 24:4
So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you…
leads to
- 1 Samuel 26:8–11
  Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to…
- 1 Samuel 26:23
  May the LORD repay every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. For the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed.
- 1 Samuel 24:10
  Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I…
Through
Genesis 2:21
So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.
leads to
- Genesis 15:12
  As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.

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