2 Samuel 1:14

14 David asked him, “Why weren’t you afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”

2 Samuel 1:14 in Other Translations

14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?

14 David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?"

14 “Why were you not afraid to kill the LORD ’s anointed one?” David asked.

14 "Do you mean to say," said David, "that you weren't afraid to up and kill God's anointed king?"

14 David questioned him, "How is it that you were not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the Lord's anointed?"

2 Samuel 1:14 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 1:14

And David said unto him, how, wast thou not afraid to stretch
forth thine hand
By which it should seem that he did more than stand upon him, and press his body, that the spear might pierce through him, but that he drew his sword, and slew him; so David understood him, and is the sense of the phrase in ( 1 Samuel 17:51 ) ;

to destroy the Lord's anointed?
a reason why David did not destroy him, when it was in the power of his hands, and which he made use of to dissuade others from it; and here charges it not only as a criminal, but a daring action in this young man, at which he expresses his admiration how he could do it; hereby representing it as a very shocking and detestable action; see ( 1 Samuel 24:6 ) ( 1 Samuel 26:9 1 Samuel 26:11 ) .

2 Samuel 1:14 In-Context

12 They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the LORD and for the nation of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

13 David said to the young man who brought him the report, “Where are you from?” “I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite,” he answered.

14 David asked him, “Why weren’t you afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”

15 Then David called one of his men and said, “Go, strike him down!” So he struck him down, and he died.

16 For David had said to him, “Your blood be on your own head. Your own mouth testified against you when you said, ‘I killed the LORD’s anointed.’ ”

Cross References

• 1. S 1 Samuel 12:3; 1 Samuel 24:6; S 1 Samuel 26:9