2 Samuel 1:9

9 Entonces me suplicó: “Ven aquí y sácame de mi sufrimiento, porque el dolor es terrible y quiero morir”.

2 Samuel 1:9 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 1:9

And he said unto me again, stand, I pray thee, upon me, and
slay me
Which it can hardly be thought Saul would say; since he might as well have died by the hands of the uncircumcised Philistines, which he endeavoured to avoid, as by the hands of an Amalekite:

for anguish is come upon me;
or trembling, as the Targum, not through fear of death, but through fear of falling into the hands of the Philistines, and of being ill used by them. Some render the words, "my embroidered coat", or "breastplate", or "coat of mail", holds me ^F7, or hinders me from being pierced through with the sword or spear; so Ben Gersom ^F8:

because my life [is] yet whole in me:
for though he had been wounded by the archers, yet he did not apprehend he had received any mortal wound, but his life was whole in him; and therefore feared he should fall into their hands alive, and be ill treated by them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (Ubyh) "tunica scutulata", Braunius; "ocellata chlamys", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "thorax villosus seu pelliceus", Texelii Phoenix, p. 210.
F8 Vid. Braunium de Vest. Sacredot. Heb. l. 1. c. 17. sect. 9.

2 Samuel 1:9 In-Context

7 Cuando se dio vuelta y me vio, me gritó que me acercara a él. “¿Qué quiere que haga?”, le pregunté

8 y él me contestó: “¿Quién eres?”. Le respondí: “Soy un amalecita”.

9 Entonces me suplicó: “Ven aquí y sácame de mi sufrimiento, porque el dolor es terrible y quiero morir”.

10 »De modo que lo maté —dijo el amalecita a David—, porque me di cuenta de que no iba a vivir. Luego tomé su corona y su brazalete y se los he traído a usted, mi señor.

11 Al escuchar las noticias, David y sus hombres rasgaron sus ropas en señal de dolor.