Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 24:19

19 Rén ruò yùjiàn chóudí , qǐ kĕn fàng tā píngān wú shì dì qù ne . yuàn Yēhéhuá yīn nǐ jīnrì xiàng wǒ suǒ xíng de , yǐ shàn bào nǐ .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 24:19 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 24:19

For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away?
&c.] Or "in a good way" ^F5, in peace and safety, without doing him any hurt; this is not usual among men, and yet this was the present case; David had found his enemy Saul, which Saul tacitly owns, and yet had let him go well away from him, without hurting him:

wherefore the Lord reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me
this day;
he does not promise to reward him himself, but prays the Lord to reward him; and had he been sincere in it, he could not have done better for him. Some connect the former clause with this, after this manner, "if a man find his enemy, and let him go away, the Lord will reward him, the Lord reward thee" so the Syriac and Arabic versions.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 (hbwj Krdb) "in via bona", Pagninus, Montanus.

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 24:19 In-Context

17 Duì Dàwèi shuō , nǐ bǐ wǒ gōngyì . yīnwei nǐ yǐ shàn dāi wǒ , wǒ què yǐ è dāi nǐ .

18 Nǐ jīnrì xiǎnmíng shì yǐ shàn dāi wǒ . yīnwei Yēhéhuá jiāng wǒ jiāo zaì nǐ shǒu lǐ , nǐ què méiyǒu shā wǒ .

19 Rén ruò yùjiàn chóudí , qǐ kĕn fàng tā píngān wú shì dì qù ne . yuàn Yēhéhuá yīn nǐ jīnrì xiàng wǒ suǒ xíng de , yǐ shàn bào nǐ .

20 Wǒ yĕ zhīdào nǐ bìyào zuò wáng , Yǐsèliè de guó bìjiān lì zaì nǐ shǒu lǐ .

21 Xiànzaì nǐ yào zhǐ zhe Yēhéhuá xiàng wǒ qǐshì , bù jiǎnchú wǒde hòuyì , zaì wǒ fù jiā bù miè mò wǒde míng .