David said to him, “How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”
Here is, I. David's reception of these tidings. So far was he from falling into a transport of joy, as the Amalekite expected, that he fell into a passion of weeping, rent his clothes (Sa2 1:11), mourned and fasted (Sa2 1:12), not only for his people Israel and Jonathan his friend but for Saul his enemy.
Commenting on 2 Samuel 1:11-16
And David said unto him, how, wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand,.... By which it should seem that he did more than stand upon him, and press his body, that the spear might pierce through him, but that he drew his sword, and slew him; so David understood him, and is the sense of the phrase in Sa1 17:51, to destroy the Lord's anointed?
2Sa 1:14-16 David then reproached him for what he had done: “How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed?” and commanded one of his attendants to slay him (2Sa 1:15.), passing sentence of death in these words: “Thy blood come upon thy head (cf.
Commenting on 2 Samuel 1:14-16