16<\/strong>. for thy mouth<\/em>, &c.] For the expression cp. Job 15:6<\/span>; Luk 19:22<\/span>. He had accused himself of a capital crime, for which he deserved to die. Righteous indignation, and not merely political prudence, dictated his immediate execution.<\/p>\n This account of Saul’s death is obviously inconsistent with that given in 1 Samuel 31<\/span>. It is useless to attempt to harmonize them, but it is quite unnecessary to assume that we have two different traditions of the manner of Saul’s death. The Amalekite’s story was clearly a fabrication. In wandering over the field of battle he had found the corpse of Saul and stripped it of its ornaments. With these he hastened to David, and invented his fictitious story in the hope of securing an additional reward for having with his own hand rid David of his bitterest enemy and removed the obstacle which stood between him and the throne. But he had formed a wrong estimate of the man he had to deal with. Whether David believed him or not, he summarily inflicted the penalty which the Amalekite deserved according to his own avowal, and proved to all Israel his abhorrence of such an impious act.<\/p>\n David’s chivalrous loyalty and generous unselfishness in mourning for the death of his unrelenting persecutor, whose removal opened the way for him to the throne, are striking evidences of the nobility of his character.<\/p>\n David might well think his sentence just though severe, for he had more than once expressed the deliberate opinion that none could lift up his hand against the Lords anointed, and be guiltless (see 1Sa 24:6<\/span>; 1Sa 26:9<\/span>, 1Sa 26:11<\/span>, 1Sa 26:16<\/span>).<\/P> <\/p>\n Verse 16<\/span>. Thy blood<\/B><\/I> be <\/B>upon thy head<\/B><\/I>] If he killed Saul, as he said he did, then he deserved death; at that time it was not known to the contrary, and this man was executed on his own confession.<\/P> <\/p>\n Thy blood be upon thy head; <\/B>the guilt of thy bloodshed or death lies upon thyself, not upon me, for thy free and voluntary confession is sufficient proof of thy guilt in killing the king. <\/P> <\/p>\n And David said unto him, thy blood [be] upon thy head<\/strong>,…. The blood that he had shed, let him suffer for it; for as he had shed blood, his blood ought to be shed, according to the law of God; and for proof of this, that he had so done, he appeals to his own confession:<\/p>\n for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the Lord’s anointed<\/strong>; and what might serve to confirm the truth of what he had said were the crown and bracelet which he brought along with him; and besides he was an Amalekite, of a nation that was devoted to destruction; and, as Abarbinel thinks, David might suppose that he killed Saul to take vengeance on him for what he had done to their nation; but, after all, both he and Maimonides n allow the punishment of him was not strictly according to law, but was a temporary decree, an extraordinary case, and an act of royal authority; for in common cases a man was not to be condemned and put to death upon his own confession, since it is possible he may not be in his right mind o; but David chose to exercise severity in this case, partly to show his respect to Saul, and to ingratiate himself into the favour of his friends, and partly to deter men from attempting to assassinate princes, who himself was now about to ascend the throne.<\/p>\n n Hilchot Sanhedrin, c. 18. sect. 6. o T. Bab. Yehamot, fol. 25. 2. Maimon. ibid.<\/p>\n 16<\/strong>. <\/strong> Thy blood be upon thy head <\/strong> Thy infamous deed of slaying the king can be atoned for only by the immediate shedding of thine own blood. <\/p>\n Thy mouth hath testified against thee <\/strong> David regarded an offence against the person of the king as most execrable sacrilege, and therefore, to his mind, a man who gloried in slaying the Lord’s anointed deserved death.<\/p>\n 2Sa 1:16 And David said unto him, Thy blood [be] upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD’S anointed.<\/p>\n Ver. 16. Thy blood be upon thy head.<\/strong> ] For though Saul desired thee to despatch him, as thou hast said, and volenti non fit iniuria:<\/em> yet because he was felo de se,<\/em> as lawyers now speak, a suicide, it was not lawful for thee to help him out of the world, although the enemy had given him his death wound, and he therefore desired it of thee. Say that there was no wrong hereby done to Saul’s self, yet wrong was done to God the Lord of Saul’s life, as also to the commonwealth whereof Saul was the head; so saith Aquinas. a<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Saying, I have slain the Lord’s anointed.] A just hand of God upon this Amalekite, for his lying. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a<\/em> Tho. iii. p. 9, 47, ar. vi. ad. 3.<\/p>\n Thy blood. Compare 2Sa 1:10. <\/p>\n thy head = thyself. Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Part). App-6. <\/p>\n Thy blood: Gen 9:5, Gen 9:6, Lev 20:9, Lev 20:11-13, Lev 20:16, Lev 20:27, Deu 19:10, Jos 2:19, Jdg 9:24, 1Sa 26:9, 1Ki 2:32, 1Ki 2:33, 1Ki 2:37, Eze 18:13, Eze 33:5, Mat 27:25, Act 20:26 <\/p>\n mouth: 2Sa 1:10, Job 15:6, Pro 6:2, Luk 19:22, Rom 3:19 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 37:26 – conceal 1Sa 26:11 – that I should 2Sa 3:29 – rest 2Sa 16:8 – the blood 2Sa 18:13 – wrought Ecc 10:12 – but Eze 33:4 – his blood Hos 12:14 – therefore Act 18:6 – Your<\/p>\n 1:16 And David said unto him, {f} Thy blood [be] upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD’S anointed.<\/p>\n (f) You are justly punished for your fault.<\/p>\n And David said unto him, Thy blood [be] upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD’s anointed. 16. for thy mouth, &c.] For the expression cp. Job 15:6; Luk 19:22. He had accused himself of a capital crime, for which he deserved to die. 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