Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once , and I will not smite him the second time.
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Gill's Exposition
Then said Abishai to David,.... Seeing Saul fast asleep, and a spear so near him:
God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: or at this time, properly it was night:
now therefore let…
Adam Clarke
God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand - Here Abishai uses the same language as did David's men, when Saul came into the cave at En-gedi, (see Sa1 24:4, etc.), and David uses the same language…
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…
Cambridge Bible
hath delivered Lit. shut up, as in 1Sa 24:18.
at once Not "immediately," but "with one stroke."
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