1 Samuel 24:14 KJV — MannaFest

1 Samuel 24:14

After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.

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ASV

After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.

WEB

Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?

YLT

`After whom hath the king of Israel come out? after whom art thou pursuing? --after a dead dog! after one flea!

DBT

After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a single flea.

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1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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15 verses on the floor

1 Samuel 26:20
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the Lord: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
1 Samuel 17:43
And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
Psalms 124:7
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
2 Samuel 9:8
And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
2 Samuel 16:9
Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.

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He seems to have been naturally susceptible of strong, and, as in this instance, of good and grateful impressions. The improvement of his temper, indeed, was but transient--his language that of a man overwhelmed by the force of impetuous emotions and constrained to admire the conduct, and esteem the character, of one whom he hated and dreaded.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

): Whom does the king of Israel pursue with all this care and force? A dead dog; a flea; one flea, so it is in the Hebrew. It is below so great a king to enter the lists with one that is so unequal a match for him, one of his own servants, bred a poor shepherd, now an exile, neither able nor willing to make any resistance.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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1SA 24:141SA 17:43 2SA 3:8
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
1SA 24:142SA 16:9 2SA 9:8
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1SA 24:142SA 9:8 2SA 16:9
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1SA 24:142SA 16:9 EXO 22:28
1SA 24:142SA 9:8 MAT 15:26-27
1SA 24:141SA 17:43 2KI 8:13
1SA 24:141SA 17:43 GEN 27:29
1SA 24:142SA 9:8 1SA 24:14-15

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