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1 Sam 26:1–25 This chapter resembles ch. 24, but there are too many differences to think that they are simply different versions of the same event.
1 Sam 26:1 The Ziphites are no happier to have David among them now than they were in 23:19.
1 Sam 26:6 Ahimelech the Hittite is mentioned nowhere else in Scripture. He may have been a hired warrior. Joab’s brother Abishai the son of Zeruiah. Zeruiah was David’s sister (1 Chron. 2:16–17), so Joab and Abishai were David’s nephews. For more on David’s family relationships, see note on 2 Sam. 2:13.
1 Sam 26:11–12 “take now the spear. . . .” So David took the spear. The narrator can say that David “took the spear” because David was the one who ordered it to be taken (“take now the spear”).
1 Sam 26:16 you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord. David uses the plural “you.” He is accusing Saul’s men as a group.
1 Sam 26:19–20 they have driven me out this day. David has concluded that he can no longer stay in Israel. Partridge is literally a “calling [bird].” Abner had asked who was “calling” the king (v. 14), so, perhaps humorously, David compares himself to a partridge being hunted down by Saul.
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