사무엘상 15:28의 인용 해설

To your fellow, to Dovid. But during his lifetime, he [Shmuel] did not mention his name [Dovid] to him, only 'and He gave it to your fellow who is better than you'²³Above 15:28. because he feared that he [Shaul], might kill him,²⁴Now however, that Shmuel was in the עוֹלָם הָאֶמֶת [=World of Truth] there was nothing to fear speaking the complete truth. because he had anointed him [Dovid] as king.

אבידן בן גדעוני. This is an allusion to King Saul who was referred to by David as אבי, "my father" (compare Samuel I 24,11) when David had cut off Saul's mantle instead of killing him. Saul had deserved to be killed seeing that G'd had already judged him, דן, and told him he had forfeited his crown (Samuel I 15). There is also an allusion in this name to Mordechai who destroyed the seed of Amalek. The word בן גדעוני means that he (David) was the one on whose account Saul's kingdom had been taken from him.