For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.
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Gill's Exposition
For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away?.... Or "in a good way" (e), in peace and safety, without doing him any hurt; this is not usual among men, and yet this was the present case;…
Adam Clarke
If a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? - Or rather, Will he send him in a good way? But Houbigant translates the whole clause thus: Si quis, inimicum suum reperiens, dimittit eum in…
Here we have,
I. Saul's penitent reply to David's speech. It was strange that he had patience to hear him out, considering how outrageous he was against him, and how cutting David's discourse was. But…
Cambridge Bible
find his enemy Get him into his power. Cp. 1Sa 23:17; Psa 21:8.
will he let him go well away A negative answer is of course to be supplied. "No: yet thou hast done so to me: wherefore, &c."
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