1 Samuel 23:20

20 Descienda cuando esté listo, oh rey, ¡y lo atraparemos y se lo entregaremos!

1 Samuel 23:20 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 23:20

Now therefore, O king, come down
From Gibeah to Ziph, and the wilderness of it, where David was:

according to all the desires of thy soul to come down;
to seize such a prey which he was greatly desirous of, and of nothing more so than of that according to Abarbinel, the sense is, that the thing was ready in whatever way he should desire it; if he chose to come down himself, and lay hold on him, they invite him to come down; but if he did not choose to come down himself, they would seize him, and bring him to him, and deliver him up into his hand, and so he would be under no necessity of going down after him:

and our part [shall be] to deliver him into the king's hand;
this we will take upon us to do, and save the king the trouble of coming down.

1 Samuel 23:20 In-Context

18 Luego los dos renovaron su pacto solemne delante del Señor
. Después Jonatán regresó a su casa, mientras que David se quedó en Hores.

19 Pero los hombres de Zif fueron a Saúl en Guibeá y traicionaron a David.
—Sabemos dónde se esconde David —le dijeron—. Está en las fortalezas de Hores en la colina de Haquila, que está en la parte sur de Jesimón.

20 Descienda cuando esté listo, oh rey, ¡y lo atraparemos y se lo entregaremos!

21 —¡Que el Señor
los bendiga! —les dijo Saúl—. ¡Por fin alguien se preocupa por mí!

22 Vayan y verifiquen dónde se está quedando y quién lo ha visto allí, porque sé que es muy astuto.