OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 26:20

The Holy Bible · English
All chapters

Read all chapter notes ↗

Bilingual reading
Text

Open an explanation beneath verses with notes. Your notes and highlights stay on this device.

20

Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

ExplanationCommentary
EXPLANATION

Verse 20. Before, the contrary to the decrees of the Lord, ( Bible.) who will be my avenger.—Hunted, (persequiur) is here used in a passive sense; ( Calmet.) or it may be rendered, “as a partridge pursues” what it feeds upon. Bible.

Read all chapter notes
Read the whole chapter