1 Samuel 26:22

And David answered and said, behold the king's spear!.... And which perhaps was his sceptre, and which David therefore would not keep, lest it should be thought or said that he had deprived him of an…

Here is, I. Saul's penitent confession of his fault and folly in persecuting David and his promise to do so no more. This second instance of David's respect to him wrought more upon him than the…

let one of the young men, &c. For he durst not now venture to put himself in Saul's power, as he appears to have done upon the former occasion. Cp. 1Sa 26:26.