1 Samuel 23:21
Saul replied, “I hope/desire that Yahweh will bless you for telling that to me.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 20:13Later, when God told me to move away from my father’s household, I said to her, ‘This is the way you can show that you love me: Everywhere we go, say about me, “This is my brother.”’”
1 Samuel 15:13When Samuel arrived at Gilgal he approached Saul, and Saul said to him,, “I wish/desire that Yahweh will bless you! I have obeyed what Yahweh told me to do.”
Psalms 10:3They brag about the evil things that they want to do. They praise people who seize from others things that do not belong to them, and they curse you, Yahweh.
Micah 3:11Your leaders make favorable decisions only if they receive bribes. Your priests teach people only if those people pay them well. Your false prophets require people to pay them to tell people what will happen to them in the future. Those prophets say, “Yahweh is telling us what we should say, and we say that we will not experience any disasters.”
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 23:20-29
19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon? 20 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand. 21 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the Lord ; for ye have compassion on me. 22 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for… Read the whole commentary →