21<\/strong>. a snare<\/em> ] Michal was to he the bait<\/em> to lure David into some venturesome raid upon the Philistines in which he might lose his life<\/p>\n Wherefore Saul<\/em>, &c.] Probably, And Saul said to David a second time, Now shalt thou be my son-in-law.<\/strong> The Sept. (B) omits the clause, but adds, “Now the hand of the Philistines was against Saul.”<\/p>\n In the one of the twain – <\/B>Some prefer the second time Job 33:14<\/span>. The first contract had been broken by giving Merab to Adriel.<\/P> <\/p>\n 1Sa 18:21<\/span><\/p>\n And Saul said, I will give him her that she may be a snare to him.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Marriage an instrument of intrigue<\/strong><\/p>\n We are not without examples in profane history of royal parents employing matrimonial contracts as instruments of intrigue or revenge. Antiochus the Great wedded his daughter Cleopatra to Ptolemy Epiphanes, King of Egypt, in order thereby to compass his destruction, though the baseness of the plot defeated itself (Delany). Saul, doubtless, in ordinary circumstances, would have violently resented the marriage of Michal; but he was artful enough to see, in the preliminaries to such a connection, a new opportunity for effecting his deadly purpose, and that, too, by a repetition of the identical stratagem and unworthy knavery which on two former occasions had been foiled. The thing pleased him, and Saul said, I will give him her that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. (J. R. Macduff, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n Verse 21<\/span>. That she may be a snare to him<\/B><\/I>] Saul had already determined the condition on which he would give his daughter to David; viz., that he should slay one hundred Philistines<\/I>: this he supposed he would undertake for the love of Michal, and that he must necessarily perish in the attempt; and thus<\/I> Michal would become a snare to him<\/I>.<\/P> <\/p>\n This day, <\/B>i.e. suddenly, within a time which probably Saul prefixed. <\/P> In the one of the twain:<\/B> whereas I have only two daughters, and thou wast disappointed of thy expectation in the one by an unexpected accident, thou shalt certainly have the other, which is the same thing. Heb. in the twain<\/I>. Thus the cities of Gilead is put for one of them, Jdg 12:7<\/span>; and the sides of the ship<\/I> for one of the sides, Jon 1:5<\/span>. Or he saith in the twain<\/I>, or in both, because he was in effect betrothed to the one, and should be married to the other, and so was I his son-in-law upon a double account. <\/P> <\/p>\n And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him<\/strong>,…. The cause and occasion of his fall and ruin, by means of what he should propose to him as the condition of marriage; but instead of proving a snare to him, as he hoped, she was the means of his deliverance, when Saul sent messengers to slay him, 1Sa 19:11<\/span>,<\/p>\n and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him<\/strong>; provoked by what he should put him upon doing to them. The scheme he had in his head after appears, and what he now said was not openly said before his servants and courtiers, whom he did not trust with his secrets, but this he said within himself, conceived and contrived it in his own mind:<\/p>\n wherefore Saul said to David<\/strong>; who was as yet at court, or whom he sent for on this occasion:<\/p>\n thou shalt this day be my son in law in [the one of] the twain<\/strong>; by marrying one of his two daughters; signifying, that he would not defer the marriage, or put it off to a longer time, as he had done before, but that he should be married immediately to one or other of his daughters; and seeing he could not have the eldest, she being disposed of, he should have the youngest, and so be equally his son-in-law. If we read the words without the supplement, “shalt be my son-in-law in the two”, or in both, the sense is, that he should have them both; and so the Jews say w, that he married them both, first Merab, and after her death Michal; or that he should be his son-in-law on two accounts, one by betrothing Merab, though he was not married to her, and the other by being married to Michal, so that he would be doubly his son in law; but the sense, according to the supplement, is best.<\/p>\n w T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 19. 2.<\/p>\n (21) That she may be a snare to him.<\/strong>Is it not possible that this dark plot of Saul against a life once so dear to hima plot which in after days, when the enmity of the king was a matter of general notoriety, became of course known by Davidsuggested to him (David) the means by which, in the darkest hours of his life, he got rid of the brave Uriah, the husband of Bath-sheba, at the siege of Rabbah? (2 Samuel 11<\/span>)<\/p>\n In the one of the twain.<\/strong>More accurately translated. in this second time, <\/em>or in this second way. <\/em>The LXX. again leaves out this statement, no doubt because it refers back to the omitted passage in 1Sa. 18:17-19<\/span>.<\/p>\n 21<\/strong>. <\/strong> In the one of the twain <\/strong> Better, In the second shalt thou become my son in law this day. <\/em> That is, by means of the second daughter; or, thou shalt become doubly my son in law, <\/em> for the first (Merab) was lawfully thine, and now the second shall certainly be given thee. <\/p>\n This day <\/strong> Some day designated for the marriage.<\/p>\n 1Sa 18:21<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>And Saul said, <\/em><\/strong>&c.<\/strong> Houbigant renders this, But Saul determined that he would propose to give her to him, that he might be ensnared by means of her, and fall into the hands of the Philistines. <\/em>It is not to be imagined that Michal, <\/em>who loved David, <\/em>would lay any snares for him: Saul prepared the snare by means of her; hoping, that when David should undertake to fight the Philistines for her sake, he would fall in battle. The latter clause of the verse he renders thus: Thou shalt this day be my<\/em> son-in-law, on another condition. <\/em>His first condition was, the conquest of Goliath; his second, an hundred foreskins of the Philistines. <\/em>Nothing can be more despicable than the shuffling, base, and insidious conduct of Saul, throughout this whole transaction. Ludolf, in his History of Ethiopia, b. 1 Chronicles 16<\/span> informs us, that it is to this day the custom in Ethiopia to judge of the number of the dead in a battle, not by the heads, but by those signs of victory which Saul demanded from David. <\/p>\n 1Sa 18:21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in [the one of] the twain.<\/p>\n Ver. 21. Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law.<\/strong> ] Here is a fair glove drawn upon a foul hand; there is a great deal of such colluding and colloguing in the world. “Be wise as serpents.” <\/p>\n “ Sit licet in partes circumspectissimus omnes,<\/p>\n Nemo tamen vulpes, nemo cavere potest. ”<\/p>\n a snare: Exo 10:7, Psa 7:14-16, Psa 38:12, Pro 26:24-26, Pro 29:5, Jer 5:26, Jer 9:8 <\/p>\n the hand: 1Sa 18:17, 1Sa 19:11, 1Sa 19:12 <\/p>\n this day: 1Sa 18:26 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Exo 23:33 – it will surely 2Sa 11:15 – Set ye 2Sa 12:7 – I delivered 2Sa 17:4 – the saying Psa 10:10 – humbleth Psa 11:2 – that Psa 36:3 – The words Psa 37:12 – General Psa 56:5 – all Psa 62:9 – of high Pro 10:18 – that hideth Pro 26:26 – Whose hatred is covered by deceit Mat 2:7 – General<\/p>\n 18:21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a {i} snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in [the one of] the twain.<\/p>\n (i) So his hypocrisy appears, for under pretence of favour he sought his destruction.<\/p>\n And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law in [the one of] the twain. 21. a snare ] Michal was to he the bait … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Samuel 18:21”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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