David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.
David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come of a certainty.
and David sendeth spies, and knoweth that Saul hath come unto Nachon,
David sent out spies, and learned that Saul was certainly come.
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices1
David therefore sent out spies,.... To observe if he was coming or come, and where he was, that he might not be surprised by him; for though David knew the Lord was and would be his protection, he thought proper to be upon his guard, and to make use of means for his safety: and understood that Saul was come in very deed; that he was most certainly come, and come to some certain place; which he himself went to reconnoitre, as in 1Sa 26:5.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
The walk8
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.
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Matthew 10:16Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
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so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.
Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time.
Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
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Joshua 2:1Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
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By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with those who were disobedient.
In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent them off on another route?
Salmon was the father of Boaz by Rahab, Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse,
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
The verses this one reaches4
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
May the LORD be our judge and decide between you and me. May He take notice and plead my case and deliver me from your hand.”
