Commentary for I Samuel 18:24
וַיַּגִּ֜דוּ עַבְדֵ֥י שָׁא֛וּל ל֖וֹ לֵאמֹ֑ר כַּדְּבָרִ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה דִּבֶּ֥ר דָּוִֽד׃ (פ)
And the servants of Saul told him, saying: ‘On this manner spoke David.’
Rashi on I Samuel
And cymbals. Targum Yonoson renders, 'and with cymbals,' a type of musical instrument.1Perhaps a three [=שָׁלשׁ] stringed harp.—Radak.
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Rashi on I Samuel
He is lacking. What more is he lacking, that he needs to acquire?
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Only the kingship. He needs nothing else but the kingship.
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Viewed suspiciously. With an envious glance.
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And he raved. [Literally 'he prophesied'] but Targum renders, 'and he raved.' A prophet and a madman speak in unintelligible hints.
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I will strike Dovid and the wall. I will strike one blow so, that the spear will pierce Dovid and the wall.2Shaul wanted to strike Dovid in a manner that it would appear that it was unintentional.
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Succeeded. Succeeded.3Although ‘שֵׂבֶל’ usually indicates wisdom, here it is used to indicate success.
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Shaul said. To himself.
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Let not my hand be upon him. Lest I will be punished.
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But let the hand of the Philistines be upon him. Therefore, he said to him, "and fight Adonoy's wars."
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When the time came to give. When the time arrived which they had set to give her to him, and while they were involved with giving her to him, it turned out that she was given to Adrieil.4Son of Barzili. See II Shmuel 21:8. She married Adrieil without Shaul’s knowledge—Metzudas Dovid.
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Through the second [of my two daughters] you will become my son-in-law. I have two daughters; through one of them, you will become my son-in-law.5See Maseches Sanhedrin 19b. And similarly did Targum Yonoson render, 'with one of the two.' Similarly [we find], "I hold three things [meaning, one of three things] over you,"6II Shmuel 24:12. as Scripture clarifies there, "choose one of them."7Ibid.
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Time had not yet expired. He did not wait until the time expired which he had set for him to bring the one hundred foreskins.
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Dovid rose and went, he and his men…and gave them all.8I.e., all two hundred, though Shaul demanded only one hundred. Presenter in O.F.
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To fear. To fear.
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The Philistines officers would venture out. To come in troops to plunder [the Bnei] Yisroel.
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