1 Samuel 26:7

7 David et Abishaï vinrent donc de nuit vers le peuple; et voici, Saül dormait, couché dans l'enceinte du camp, et sa lance était plantée en terre à son chevet, et Abner et le peuple étaient couchés autour de lui.

1 Samuel 26:7 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 26:7

So David and Abishai came to the people by night
Josephus

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 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 enterprise, for two men to go into a camp of three thousand men, though it was in the night; when though they might suppose the greater part of them were asleep, yet they could not well suppose this of all, and especially of the guards or sentinels; but no doubt David was moved to this, not merely by the dint of his natural courage, but by the Spirit of God, by whom he might be assured of protection, and that Saul and the people were cast into a deep sleep by the Lord, as they were, ( 1 Samuel 26:12 ) ; and this the Lord moved him to, that he might have an opportunity a second time to convince Saul of his innocence, and that he had no design upon his life:

and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench;
(See Gill on 1 Samuel 26:5);

and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster;
ready to take up and defend himself, should he be surprised; or this was his sceptre, which he always carried about with him, as an ensign of royalty, and by which very probably David knew which was Saul's tent or couch, where he slept:

but Abner and the people lay round about him;
as in ( 1 Samuel 26:5 ) .

F12 Antiqu. l. 6. c. 13. sect. 9.

1 Samuel 26:7 In-Context

5 Alors David se leva, et vint au lieu où Saül était campé; et David vit le lieu où couchait Saül, ainsi qu'Abner, fils de Ner, chef de son armée. Or, Saül couchait dans l'enceinte du camp, et le peuple était campé autour de lui.

6 Et David prit la parole, et dit à Achimélec, Héthien, et à Abishaï, fils de Tséruja, frère de Joab: Qui descendra avec moi vers Saül, au camp? Alors Abishaï répondit: J'y descendrai avec toi.

7 David et Abishaï vinrent donc de nuit vers le peuple; et voici, Saül dormait, couché dans l'enceinte du camp, et sa lance était plantée en terre à son chevet, et Abner et le peuple étaient couchés autour de lui.

8 Alors Abishaï dit à David: Dieu a livré aujourd'hui ton ennemi entre tes mains; maintenant donc, je te prie, que je le frappe de la lance jusqu'en terre, d'un seul coup, et je n'y reviendrai pas.

9 Mais David dit à Abishaï: Ne le mets point à mort; car qui porterait la main sur l'oint de l'Éternel, et serait innocent?