Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Samuel 26:25
Then Saul said to David, Blessed [be] thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great [things], and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
25. to his place ] i.e. to his home. Cp. 1Sa 2:20.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 25. Thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail.] The Hebrew is gam asoh thaaseh, vegam yachol tuchal; “Also in doing thou shalt do, and being able thou shalt be able; which the Targum translates, also in reigning thou shalt reign, and in prospering thou shalt prosper; which in all probability is the meaning.
There is a vast deal of dignity in this speech of David, arising from a consciousness of his own innocence. He neither begs his life from Saul, nor offers one argument to prevail upon him to desist from his felonious attempts, but refers the whole matter to God, as the judge and vindicator of oppressed innocence. Saul himself is speechless, except in the simple acknowledgment of his sin; and in the behalf of their king not one of his officers has one word to say! It is strange that none of them offered now to injure the person of David; but they saw that he was most evidently under the guardian care of God, and that their master was apparently abandoned by him. Saul invites David to return, but David knew the uncertainty of Saul’s character too well to trust himself in the power of this infatuated king. How foolish are the counsels of men against God! When he undertakes to save, who can destroy? And who can deliver out of his hands?
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
David went on his way; knowing Sauls unstable and deceitful heart, he would not trust to any of his professions or promises, but kept out of his reach.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
25. So David went on hiswayNotwithstanding this sudden relenting of Saul, David placedno confidence in his professions or promises, but wisely kept at adistance and awaited the course of Providence.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Then Saul said to David, blessed [be] thou, my son David,…. He desired God to bless him, and pronounced him blessed himself, believing he would be a happy and prosperous man:
thou shall both do great [things]; he had done great things already, in slaying Goliath, obtaining victories over the Philistines, and escaping the hands of Saul, and keeping out of them with so small a force; and he should do greater things yet:
and also shalt still prevail; against Saul and all his enemies; the Targum is,
“even in reigning thou shalt reign, and even in prospering thou shalt prosper;”
he believed he would be king, so he had said before, 1Sa 24:20;
so David went on his way: to the wilderness again very probably, putting no trust and confidence in Saul, knowing how fickle and unstable he was:
and Saul returned to his place; to Gibeah, where his palace was.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(25) Thou shalt both do great things.Saul is here again among the prophets, and foretells Davids exaltation and victory. Vicisti Nazarene! was the exclamation of Julian.Bishop Wordsworth.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
25. Saul returned to his place To his home in Gibeah. These rivals never saw each other again.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
REFLECTIONS
READER! again the Holy Ghost calleth us to behold the implacable and unmerciful malice of Saul, and the gracious exercises of the mind of David, in a renewed instance of the evil designs of the one, and the deliverance God wrought for the other. Let us obey the sacred call, and pause over what we have read, in order to mark the different dispositions, of these men; and yet more especially to behold the gracious interposition of God, in defeating the evil schemes of Saul and prospering the hand of David.
But may we not without violence to the subject, behold in the unremitting persecution of David by Saul, somewhat more than the mere jealousies of nature in the envy of Saul to David, respecting his succession in the kingdom? Are there not traces to be seen of the still greater envy arising in the mind of the unregenerate, in the view of the Lord’s favour towards his people in a spiritual kingdom. Alas! what bitterness do the children of the wicked one manifest to the children of the kingdom? Like the corrupt stock from which they shoot, their very vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah. In this spiritual warfare what goings forth of the enemy, like Saul in the pursuit of David, are there every day to surprise by ambush, or to take by subtilty? And what Ziphites are there everywhere to join in the confederacy, to deliver the godly into the snare of the wicked. Ye soldiers of Jesus Christ, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God. Remember your enemies are the enemies of our God and of his Christ. He will fight your battles. Stand still and you shall shortly see the salvation of God. He hath delivered you hitherto, and doth deliver, and therefore trust in him, and he will yet deliver. Ere long the battle will be finished. That promise is absolute. The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
1Sa 26:25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed [be] thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great [things], and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
Ver. 25. Thou shalt both do great things. ] Faciendo facies. The Tigurines translate it, Et facies et omnino perficies, thou shalt do the deed, and go thorough stitch with it, as we use to say. And so David did indeed above all that went before him; so that in his days, and his son Solomon’s, that kingdom was at its highest but no thanks to Saul, who truly foretold it, but maliciously opposed it to his utmost.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Blessed: 1Sa 24:19, Num 24:9, Num 24:10
prevail: Gen 32:28, Isa 54:17, Hos 12:4, Rom 8:35, Rom 8:37
So David: 1Sa 24:22, Pro 26:25
Reciprocal: 1Sa 17:37 – Go 1Sa 18:28 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Sa 26:25. Blessed be thou, my son David Saul perceived that it was in vain to contend any longer against David, whom he saw God intended for great things. And so strong was his conviction now of this, as well as of his own sin and folly, that he could not forbear blessing him, foretelling his success, applauding him, and condemning himself, even in the hearing of his own soldiers. And this, it seems, was their last interview. After this they saw each other no more.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
26:25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed [be] thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great [things], and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his {m} place.
(m) To Gibeah of Benjamin.