SEV Biblia, Chapter 26:19
Ruego, pues, que el rey mi señor oiga ahora las palabras de su siervo. Si el SEÑOR te incita contra mí, huela él el olor del sacrificio; mas si fueren hijos de hombres, malditos sean ellos en presencia del SEÑOR, que me han echado hoy para que no me junte en la heredad del SEÑOR, diciendo: Ve y sirve a dioses ajenos.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 26:19
Verse 19. Let him accept an offering] If God have stirred thee up against me, why, then, let him deliver my life into thy hand, and accept it as a sacrifice. But as the word is hjnm minchah, a gratitude-offering, perhaps the sense may be this: Let God accept a gratitude-offering from thee, for having purged the land of a worker of iniquity; for, were I not such, God would never stir thee up against me. But if they be the children of men] If men have, by false representations, lies, and slanders, stirred thee up against an innocent man, then let them be cursed before the Lord. If I am guilty, I deserve to die; if not, those who seek my life should be destroyed.
Saying, Go, serve other gods.] His being obliged to leave the tabernacle, and the place where the true worship of God was performed, and take refuge among idolaters, said in effect, Go, serve other gods.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 19. Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant , etc.] Whether David waited for an answer to his question is not certain; probably he did, and observing none returned, desired audience of what he had further to say: if the Lord have stirred thee up against me ; if he had put it into his heart to persecute him after this manner, for some sin he had committed against him, though not against Saul: did that appear to be the case, let him accept an offering ; my offering, as the Targum; or my prayer, as Jarchi; I would offer a sin offering according to the law, to make atonement for my offence, and might hope it would be accepted; or I would make my supplication to God, and entreat him to forgive mine iniquity, and so an issue be put to these troubles; or should it be a capital crime deserving of death he was guilty of, he was content to die, and satisfy for his fault in that way; or if both of them had sinned, in any respect, he proposed to join in an acceptable sacrifice to God, and so reconciliation be made, and matters adjusted in such a religious way; if it was the evil spirit from the Lord that had entered into Saul, or God had suffered a melancholy disorder to seize him, which had put him upon those measures, let an offering agreeable to the will of God be offered, or supplication made for the removal of it: but if [they be] the children of men ; that incited him to such violent methods, as Abner his general, or Doeg the Edomite, and others: cursed [be] they before the Lord ; an imprecation of the vengeance of God upon them: for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the Lord ; meaning not from his own house and fatally, nor from the palace of Saul, but from the land of Canaan the Lord had given to his people Israel for an inheritance, and from the worship of God in it, which made it dear and precious to him; he knew if Saul went on pursuing him in this manner, he mast be obliged to quit the land, and go into a foreign country, as he quickly did; so the Targum renders it the inheritance of the people of the Lord: by being driven out of the land which was their inheritance, he should be deprived of their company and conversation, and of all social worship; the consideration of which was cutting to him, and caused the above imprecation from him on those who were concerned in it, and who in effect by their actions were saying, go, serve other gods ; for by being forced to go into an idolatrous country, he would be in the way of temptation, and be liable to be corrupted by ill examples, and to be persuaded and enticed into idolatrous practices; and if he was kept from them it would be no thanks to them, they did all they could to lead him into them; and if he was preserved, it would be owing to the power and grace of God; the Targum is, “go David among the people that worship idols;” the Jews have a saying, that he that dwells without the land of Israel, it is as if he had no God and as if he served an idol f523 .
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13-20 - David reasoned seriously and affectionately with Saul. Those who forbi our attendance on God's ordinances, do what they can to estrange u from God, and to make us heathens. We are to reckon that which expose us to sin the greatest injury that can be done us. If the Lord stirre thee up against me, either in displeasure to me, taking this way to punish me for my sins against him, or in displeasure to thee, if it by the effect of that evil spirit from the Lord which troubles thee; le Him accept an offering from us both. Let us join in seeking peace, an to be reconciled with God by sacrifice.
Original Hebrew
ועתה 6258 ישׁמע 8085 נא 4994 אדני 113 המלך 4428 את 853 דברי 1697 עבדו 5650 אם 518 יהוה 3068 הסיתך 5496 בי ירח 7306 מנחה 4503 ואם 518 בני 1121 האדם 120 ארורים 779 הם 1992 לפני 6440 יהוה 3068 כי 3588 גרשׁוני 1644 היום 3117 מהסתפח 5596 בנחלת 5159 יהוה 3068 לאמר 559 לך 1980 עבד 5647 אלהים 430 אחרים׃ 312
