Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Samuel 18:16
But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.
16. because he went out and came in before them ] Acted as their leader in war. Saul made David captain over a thousand partly to get rid of him from his presence, partly perhaps in the hope that he might lose his life in battle ( 1Sa 18:17 ; 1Sa 18:25): but the result was that he became firmly established in the affections of the people. Cp. 1Sa 18:5.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
And all Israel and Judah loved David,…. The verb is singular, and denotes that everyone of them loved him in all the tribes of Israel, as well as in Judah his own tribe; in such general esteem was he, and so much had he got the hearts and affections of the people:
because he went out and came in before them; the people, as in
1Sa 18:13; so the Septuagint version, in which, according to the Vatican copy, the verses 1Sa 18:17 are wanting.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(16) But all Israel and Judah.This distinct mention of the two great later divisions of the chosen people seems to point to the fact that the compiler of the Books of Samuel lived after the final separation of the ten tribes from Judah and Benjamin, in the reign of Rehoboam. It is, however, clear from other notices (see, for instance, 1Sa. 11:8; 1Sa. 15:4, in this book) that at a period long anterior to the final disruption between the north and south a marked distinction between the two had begun to exist.
In Davids case, however, although he was of Judah, the future king was equally popular with the northern tribes.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
1Sa 18:16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.
Ver. 16. But all Israel and Judah loved David. ] Of David and Saul it might be said, as once it was of Germanicus and Tiberius, that the former reigned in the hearts, and the latter but in the provinces only.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
all Israel: 1Sa 18:5, Luk 19:48, Luk 20:19
he went: Num 27:17, 2Sa 5:2, 1Ki 3:7
Reciprocal: 1Sa 18:13 – he went out Pro 27:21 – so