23The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD. …
Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. …
The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me. …
The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-25)Here is, I. Saul’s penitent confession of his fault and folly in persecuting David and his promise to do so no more. This second instance of David’s respect to him wrought more upon him than the former, and extorted from him better acknowledgements, 1 Sam. 26:21. 1. He owns himself melted and quite overcome by David’s kindness to him: “ My soul was precious in thy eyes this day , which, I thought,…
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