SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:21
Y viniendo David a Saúl, estuvo delante de él; y él lo amó mucho, y fue hecho su paje de armas.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 21. And David came to Saul, and stood before him , etc.] As a servant, and ministered to him in the way, and for the purpose for which he was sent: and he loved him greatly ; being a comely person, and a well behaved youth, and especially as he was serviceable to him with his music, in driving away melancholy from him: and he became his armourbearer ; that is, he appointed him to this office, though we never read that he exercised it; nor did he go with Saul in this capacity to the battle related in the following chapter: it may be literally rendered: “and he was to him a bearer of vessels”, or “instruments” f334 ; and Abarbinel thinks this is to be understood not of instruments of war, but of instruments of music to play with; which he brought in and bare before him when he went in to the king.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 14-23 - Saul is made a terror to himself. The Spirit of the Lord departed from him. If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us. The devil, by the Divine permission, troubled an terrified Saul, by the corrupt humours of his body, and passions of his mind. He grew fretful, peevish, and discontented, and at times madman. It is a pity that music, which may be serviceable to the goo temper of the mind, should ever be abused, to support vanity an luxury, and made an occasion of drawing the heart from God and seriou things. That is driving away the good Spirit, not the evil spirit Music, diversions, company, or business, have for a time often bee employed to quiet the wounded conscience; but nothing can effect a rea cure but the blood of Christ, applied in faith, and the sanctifyin Spirit sealing the pardon, by his holy comforts. All other plans to dispel religious melancholy are sure to add to distress, either in thi world or the next __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויבא 935 דוד 1732 אל 413 שׁאול 7586 ויעמד 5975 לפניו 6440 ויאהבהו 157 מאד 3966 ויהי 1961 לו נשׂא 5375 כלים׃ 3627
