1 Samuel 26:18 KJV — MannaFest

1 Samuel 26:18

And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?

KJV

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ASV

And he said, Wherefore doth my lord pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

WEB

And he continued, “Why is my lord pursuing his servant? What have I done? What evil is in my hand?

YLT

and he saith, `Why is this--my lord is pursuing after his servant? for what have I done, and what is in my hand evil?

DBT

And he said, Why does my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

About this book

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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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1 Samuel 24:9
And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men’s words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
1 Samuel 24:11–14
Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
Psalms 119:161
Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
Psalms 7:3
O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
Daniel 6:22
My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.

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Then David . . . stood on the top of an hill afar off . . . and cried to the people--(See on Jud 9:7). The extraordinary purity and elasticity of the air in Palestine enable words to be distinctly heard that are addressed by a speaker from the top of one hill to people on that of another, from which it is separated by a deep intervening ravine.

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

How gladly would I serve thee as formerly if my service might be accepted! but, instead of being owned as a servant, I am pursued as a rebel, and my lord is my enemy, and he whom I would follow with respect compels me to flee from him." (2.) That he was driven from his God and from his religion; and this was a much greater grievance than the former (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

He had lately had Saul's own testimony concerning him ( ch. xxiv. 17 ): Thou art more righteous than I. It was very unreasonable and wicked for Saul to pursue him as a criminal, when he could not charge him with any crime.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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