SEV Biblia, Chapter 26:20
No caiga, pues, ahora mi sangre en tierra delante del SEÑOR; porque ha salido el rey de Israel a buscar una pulga, así como quien persigue una perdiz por los montes.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 26:20
Verse 20. As when one doth hunt a partridge] It is worthy of remark that the Arabs, observing that partridges, being put up several times, soon become so weary as not to be able to fly; they in this manner hunt them upon the mountains, till at last they can knock them down with their clubs. It was in this manner that Saul hunted David, coming hastily upon him, and putting him up from time to time, in hopes that he should at length, by frequent repetitions of it, be able to destroy him. See Harmer.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 20. Now therefore let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the Lord , etc.] For should it be spilled, God, who is omniscient, will see it, and take notice of it; and being righteous, and to whom vengeance belongs, he will avenge it: some render it, “my blood shall not fall to the earth before the face of the Lord” f524 ; I am continually under his eye and care, and he will protect and defend me; and in vain is it for thee to pursue after me; I shall never fall into thine hands, though I may be obliged to quit my country, and go into an idolatrous nation, against my will: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea ; which leaps from place to place and is not easily taken: or this may denote what a mean, poor, weak, insignificant person David was; and how much it was below Saul to come out with an army of chosen men in pursuit of him; so the Targum, “the king of Israel is come out to seek one that is weak or feeble:” as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains ; as kings for their delight used to do, as Abarbinel observes; but this being a business of pleasure, and this a bird of worth, some other is thought to be here intended. Indeed the is represented as worth no more than an “obolus”, or five farthings, though fifty drachmas or drachms were ordered to be paid for one f525 ; the Septuagint renders the word an “owl”: the word is “kore”, and from the etymology of it one would think it was the raven or crow.
Jarchi on ( Jeremiah 17:11) takes it to be the cuckoo, though here the partridge as others; Bochart will have it to be the woodcock, snipe, or snite f527 . Some choose to read the words, “as the kore or partridge on the mountains hunts;” which, it is said, hunts and seeks after the nests of other birds, and sits on their eggs f528 : (see Jeremiah 17:11); so Saul hunted after David, though he could not take him; several naturalists observe, that the partridge is very difficult to be taken by the hunter.
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 אל 408 יפל 5307 דמי 1818 ארצה 776 מנגד 5048 פני 6440 יהוה 3068 כי 3588 יצא 3318 מלך 4428 ישׂראל 3478 לבקשׁ 1245 את 853 פרעשׁ 6550 אחד 259 כאשׁר 834 ירדף 7291 הקרא 7124 בהרים׃ 2022
