1 Samuel 24:2

2 Então tomou Saul três mil homens, escolhidos dentre todo o Israel, e foi em busca de Davi e dos seus homens, até sobre as penhas das cabras montesas.

1 Samuel 24:2 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 24:2

Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel,
&c.] Out of his army, with which he had been pursuing the Philistines:

and went to seek David, and his men, upon the rocks of the wild goats;
which were in the wilderness of Engedi; those rocks were exceeding high and terrible to look at, full of precipices, and so prominent, that to travellers they seemed as if they would fall into the adjacent valleys, that it even struck terror into them to look at them ^F24; called the rocks of wild goats, because these creatures, called from hence "rupicaprae", or rock goats, see ( Job 39:1 ) ; delighted to be there; and are, as Pliny ^F25 says, of such prodigious swiftness, that they will leap from mountain to mountain, and back again at pleasure; these mountains David and his men chose for safety, and the height and craggedness of them did not deter Saul and his men from seeking him there.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Adrichom Theatrum Terrae Sanct. p. 47. & Brocard. in ib.
F25 Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 53.

1 Samuel 24:2 In-Context

1 Ora, quando Saul voltou de perseguir os filisteus, foi-lhe dito: Eis que Davi está no deserto de En-Gedi.

2 Então tomou Saul três mil homens, escolhidos dentre todo o Israel, e foi em busca de Davi e dos seus homens, até sobre as penhas das cabras montesas.

3 E chegou no caminho a uns currais de ovelhas, onde havia uma caverna; e Saul entrou nela para aliviar o ventre. Ora Davi e os seus homens estavam sentados na parte interior da caverna.

4 Então os homens de Davi lhe disseram: Eis aqui o dia do qual o Senhor te disse: Eis que entrego o teu inimigo nas tuas mãos; far-lhe-ás como parecer bem aos teus olhos. Então Davi se levantou, e de mansinho cortou a orla do manto de Saul.

5 Sucedeu, porém, que depois doeu o coração de Davi, por ter cortado a orla do manto de Saul.