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David said to him, Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have slain Yahweh`s anointed.
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Justice Over Self-Interest
Commentators agree that David's swift judgment was not based on personal gain but on a deeply held principle: the sanctity of 'the Lord's anointed.' As Albert Barnes notes, David had previously refused to harm Saul for this very reason. By punishing the man who claimed to have killed the king, David demonstrated his commitment to divine order and public justice above his own self-interest.
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2 Samuel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
David might well think his sentence was just, though severe, for he had more than once expressed the deliberate opinion that no one could lift up h…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And David said to him, your blood [be] upon your head The blood that he had shed, let him suffer for it; for as he h…
David was sincere in his mourning for Saul; and all with him humbled themselves under the hand of God, which was laid so heavily upon Israel by thi…
