1 Samuel 26:7
So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
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Gill's Exposition
So David and Abishai came to the people by night,.... Josephus (l) wrongly says, that he took with him both Abishai and Ahimelech; he chose to have but one, for the greater secrecy. This was a bold…
Here is, I. David's bold adventure into Saul's camp in the night, accompanied only by his kinsman Abishai, the son of Zeruiah. He proposed it to him and to another of his confidants (Sa1 26:6), but…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
to the people i.e. to Saul's army. Cp. 1Sa 14:45.
his spear See on 1Sa 18:10.
at his bolster At his head; and so in 1Sa 26:26; 1Sa 26:26. Cp. 1Sa 19:13.