SEV Biblia, Chapter 24:6
Y dijo a los suyos: El SEÑOR me guarde de hacer tal cosa contra mi señor, el ungido del SEÑOR, que yo extienda mi mano contra él; porque es ungido del SEÑOR.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 24:6
Verse 6. The Lord's anointed] However unworthily Saul was now acting, he had been appointed to his high office by God himself, and he could only be removed by the authority which placed him on the throne. Even David, who knew he was appointed to reign in his stead, and whose life Saul had often sought to destroy, did not conceive that he had any right to take away his life; and he grounds the reasons of his forbearance on this-He is my master, I am his subject. He is the Lord's anointed, and therefore sacred as to his person in the Lord's sight. It is an awful thing to kill a king, even the most untoward, when he has once been constitutionally appointed to the throne. No experiment of this kind has ever succeeded; the Lord abhors king killing. Had David taken away the life of Saul at this time, he would, in the sight of God, have been a murderer.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 6. And he said unto his men , etc.] When he returned and brought the skirt of Saul’s garment in his hand; or else he said this before that, though here mentioned, when they moved it to him to dispatch him, as he had a fair opportunity of doing it: God forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the Lord’s anointed ; and which he could not think of but with detestation and abhorrence, since he was his sovereign lord and master, and he a subject of his, and was anointed by the order of God, and his person sacred: to stretch forth my hand against him ; to take away his life; to cut off the skirt of his garment gave him uneasiness; but to slay him, the thought of it was shocking to him: seeing he [is] the anointed of the Lord ; anointed by Samuel to be king, ( 1 Samuel 10:1), by order of the Lord, ( 1 Samuel 9:17).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - God delivered Saul into David's hand. It was an opportunity given to David to exercise faith and patience. He had a promise of the kingdom but no command to slay the king. He reasons strongly, both with himsel and with his men, against doing Saul any hurt. Sin is a thing which it becomes us to startle at, and to resist temptations thereto. He no only would not do this bad thing himself, but he would not suffer thos about him to do it. Thus he rendered good for evil, to him from whom he received evil for good; and was herein an example to all who are calle Christians, not to be overcome of evil, but to overcome evil with good.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 לאנשׁיו 582 חלילה 2486 לי מיהוה 3069 אם 518 אעשׂה 6213 את 853 הדבר 1697 הזה 2088 לאדני 113 למשׁיח 4899 יהוה 3069 לשׁלח 7971 ידי 3027 בו כי 3588 משׁיח 4899 יהוה 3069 הוא׃ 1931
