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1 Samuel 26:6

in 1 Samuel 26

And David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, “Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?” “I will go with you,” answered Abishai.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.

KJV

Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.

This verse in 1 Samuel 26

Commentary

7 notes on this verse
Ahimelech the Hittite - Only mentioned here. Uriah was also a Hittite. Abishai - He was son of Zeruiah, David’s sister, but probably about the same age as David. He because very famous as a warrior 2Sa 23:18, but was implicated with his brother Joab in the murder of Abner in retaliation for the death of their brother Asahel 2Sa 3:30.

This site's exposition

Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp

on 1 Samuel 26:6-8

David asks who will go down with him into the camp, and Abishai, his sister's son and Joab's brother, answers at once. Once inside, Abishai reads the sleeping king and the spear at his head as a verdict already handed down, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand, and offers to end it in one stroke and never need a second. His words echo the exact language David's own men used in the cave at Engedi in chapter 24, and David's answer will echo his own from that same chapter.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Bede

Commentary on Samuel · Written before 735.

proposed

And David said to Achimelech the Hittite, etc. Many, when the Lord was preaching in the flesh, from the Gentiles, many from the Jews flocked to the faith, but he chose the first ministers of his word, by whom he would overthrow and conquer the …

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), but the other either declined it as too dangerous an enterprise, or at least was content that Abishai, who was forward to it, should run the risk of it rather than himself.

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A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Zerujah - David's sister. His father is not named either because he was now dead; or because he was an obscure person.
Then answered David,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Abishai the son of Zeruiah - She was David’s sister; and therefore Abishai and Joab were nephews to David.

The words behind it

25 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיַּ֨עַןand he answered

    vaiyaanH6030331 times

  • דָּוִ֜דDavid

    davidH1732999 times

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶר׀and he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • אֲחִימֶ֣לֶךְAhimelech

    ʾachimelekhH28816 times

  • הַחִתִּ֗יthe Hittite

    hachitiH2850

  • וְאֶל־and to

    veel-H4135510 times

  • אֲבִישַׁ֨יAbishai

    ʾavishaiH5225 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • צְרוּיָ֜הZeruiah

    tzeruyahH6870

  • אֲחִ֤י[the] brother of

    ʾachiH251630 times

  • יוֹאָב֙Joab

    yoavH3097

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH5595305 times

  • מִֽי־who?

    mi-H4310423 times

  • יֵרֵ֥דwill he go down

    yeredH3381381 times

  • אִתִּ֛יwith me

    ʾitiH854929 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • שָׁא֖וּלSaul

    shaulH7586402 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑הthe camp

    hamachanehH4264215 times

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • אֲבִישַׁ֔יAbishai

    ʾavishaiH5225 times

  • אֲנִ֖יI

    ʾaniH589874 times

  • אֵרֵ֥דI will go down

    ʾeredH3381381 times

  • עִמָּֽךְ׃with you

    ʾimakhH59731050 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 2:18

    The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was fleet of foot like a wild gazelle,

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 12:8

      Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the desert. They were mighty men of valor, trained for battle, experts with the shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions…

    • Habakkuk 3:19

      GOD the Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer; He makes me walk upon the heights! For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments.

    • Song of Solomon 2:17

      Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.

    • Song of Solomon 8:14

      Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

    • Psalms 18:33

      He makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 11:6

    At this, David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 28:13

      He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

    • Matthew 26:72

      And again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man!”

    • Genesis 4:7

      If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”

About 1 Samuel

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Commentary on Samuel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.