1 Samuel 24:19

19 ¿Quién encuentra a su enemigo y le perdona la vida?^[a] ¡Que el SEÑOR te recompense por lo bien que me has tratado hoy!

1 Samuel 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.

1 Samuel 24:19 In-Context

17 —Has actuado mejor que yo —continuó Saúl—. Me has devuelto bien por mal.

18 Hoy me has hecho reconocer lo bien que me has tratado, pues el SEÑOR me entregó en tus manos, y no me mataste.

19 ¿Quién encuentra a su enemigo y le perdona la vida? ¡Que el SEÑOR te recompense por lo bien que me has tratado hoy!

20 Ahora caigo en cuenta de que tú serás el rey, y de que consolidarás el reino de Israel.

21 Júrame entonces, por el SEÑOR, que no exterminarás mi descendencia ni borrarás el nombre de mi familia.

Footnotes

• [a]. "le perdona la vida" . Lit. "lo envía por buen camino" .