14<\/strong>. the<\/em> Lord’s anointed<\/em> ] The person of the king, consecrated to the service of Jehovah by anointing, was inviolable. Compare David’s reiterated expressions on this point in 1Sa 24:6<\/span>; 1Sa 26:9 ; 1Sa 26:11<\/span>; 1Sa 26:16<\/span>; and the armourbearer’s reverence in 1Sa 31:4<\/span>.<\/p>\n Why didst not thou refuse to kill him, as his armour-bearer had done? For notwithstanding his great danger, something might have fallen out through Gods all-disposing providence, whereby his life might have been preserved. <\/P> <\/p>\n And David said unto him, how, wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand<\/strong>,…. By which it should seem that he did more than stand upon him, and press his body, that the spear might pierce through him, but that he drew his sword, and slew him; so David understood him, and is the sense of the phrase in 1Sa 17:51<\/span>;<\/p>\n to destroy the Lord’s anointed<\/strong>? a reason why David did not destroy him, when it was in the power of his hands, and which he made use of to dissuade others from it; and here charges it not only as a criminal, but a daring action in this young man, at which he expresses his admiration how he could do it; hereby representing it as a very shocking and detestable action; see 1Sa 24:6<\/span>.<\/p>\n (14) <\/em>How wast thou not afraid?<\/strong>David now turns to the Amalekite. It does not matter whether he fully believed his story or not, the man must be judged by his own account of himself. (See 2Sa. 1:16<\/span>.) Regicide was not in Davids eyes merely a political crime; he had showed on more than one occasion of great temptation (1Sa. 24:6<\/span>; 1Sa. 26:9<\/span>; 1Sa. 26:11<\/span>; 1Sa. 26:16<\/span>) that he considered taking the life of the Lords anointed as a religious offence of the greatest magnitude. It was an especially grievous thing for a foreigner and an Amalekite thus to smite him whom God had appointed as the monarch of Israel.<\/p>\n 2Sa 1:14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD’S anointed?<\/p>\n Ver. 14. How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand, &c.<\/strong> ] William Parry was for burglary condenmed to die: and yet saved by Queen Elizabeth’s pardon. a<\/em> But he, ungrateful man, sought to requite her by vowing her death, A.D. 1584; but ever he was daunted, though he had opportunity, when he beheld the glory of her presence and majesty in her face. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a<\/em> Speed.<\/p>\n How: Num 12:8, 1Sa 31:4, 2Pe 2:10 <\/p>\n stretch forth: 1Sa 24:6, 1Sa 26:9, Psa 105:15 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 1Sa 12:3 – his anointed 1Sa 26:11 – that I should 1Ch 10:4 – he was Lam 4:20 – the anointed<\/p>\n And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed? 14. the Lord’s anointed ] The person of the king, consecrated to the service of Jehovah by anointing, was inviolable. Compare David’s reiterated expressions on this point in 1Sa 24:6; 1Sa 26:9 ; 1Sa 26:11; … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 1:14”<\/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-8048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048","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=8048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"