1-Samuel - 26:4

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4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come.

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Explanation and meaning of 1-Samuel 26:4.

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David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.
David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come of a certainty.
He sent spies, and learned that he was most certainly come thither.
David sent out spies, and learned that Saul was certainly come.
and David sendeth spies, and knoweth that Saul hath come unto Nachon,
And so David sent out watchers, and got word from them that Saul was certainly coming.
he sent explorers, and he learned that he certainly had arrived in that place.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

David therefore sent out spies,.... To observe if he was coming or come, and where he was, that he might not be surprised by him; for though David knew the Lord was and would be his protection, he thought proper to be upon his guard, and to make use of means for his safety:
and understood that Saul was come in very deed; that he was most certainly come, and come to some certain place; which he himself went to reconnoitre, as in 1-Samuel 26:5.

David . . . sent out spies . . . and David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched--Having obtained certain information of the locality, he seems, accompanied by his nephew (1-Samuel 26:6), to have hid himself, perhaps disguised, in a neighboring wood, or hill, on the skirts of the royal camp towards night, and waited to approach it under covert of the darkness.

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