Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I have been told that he is very cunning.
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Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I have been told that he is very cunning.
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Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.
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Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there; for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly.
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Passages linked to 1 Samuel 23:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 5:13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, where his foot hath been.
Hebrew, where his foot hath been.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 23:22 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and…
1Sa 23:22 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who hath seen him there: for it is told me [that] he dealeth very subtilly.
Ver. 22. Go, I pray you, prepare yet.] Saul maketh use of these traitors, which a Roman Fabricius would have scorned to have done.
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For it is told me.] Or, My heart telleth me so; {Psa 36:1} or, He hath told me, viz., David, when I have asked him sometimes how he so easily overcame his enemies, hath told me that he used subtlety and policy.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Prepare yet, to wit, the matter; inform yourselves certainly…
Prepare yet, to wit, the matter; inform yourselves certainly of things, and dispose them so that we may not be frustrated in our attempt.
Where his haunt is; in what cave, or wood, or mountain he is most frequently.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Go, I pray you, prepare yet,.... That is, go…
Go, I pray you, prepare yet,.... That is, go home, return to their habitations, and get things in a greater readiness for him; inquire more diligently after David, get more intelligence of him, and inform themselves more exactly about him:
and know and see his place where his haunt is; or "foot" (s) is, where that steps and walks most frequently, not only get knowledge of it by information, but if they could get sight of it with their own eyes, that they might describe it more exactly:
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and who hath seen him there; not only seen the place, but him in the place, and that often, that it may be certain it is the place he usually resorts to:
for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly; sometimes he is seen in one place, and sometimes in another; he is here today, and elsewhere tomorrow; and by such crafty methods it is not easy to know where the place is, and where to be found; this Saul had information of from some, who knew the methods David took to keep it unknown where it was; or "it says to me"; my heart says so to me, as R. Isaiah interprets it; my mind suggests this to me, knowing the man, that he uses such wiles as these: or "he said to me", so Kimchi; when he was with me, and we were intimate, when I used to ask him how he smote the Philistines, so and so, and preserved himself from them; his answer was, "that he dealt very subtilly", he used a good deal of craftiness; and so I imagine he does now.
(s) "pes ejus", Pagninus, Montanus.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Him, and therefore will be upon his guard. (Haydock)…
Him, and therefore will be upon his guard. (Haydock) --- Syriac, "because I am told he is crafty." (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "because Saul said, lest this crafty man should exert all his art;" or, "lest he should be very cunning." (Haydock) --- Saul foreboded that he would again elude his pursuit. (Vatable)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. where his haunt is] Lit. “where his foot…
22. where his haunt is] Lit. “where his foot is.” Observe his tracks as you would those of a wild beast.
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