Rashi on Tanakh1 Samuel 18
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Read 1 Samuel 18 in the Bible1 Samuel 18:8
He is lacking. What more is he lacking, that he needs to acquire?
Only the kingship. He needs nothing else but the kingship.
1 Samuel 18:9
Viewed suspiciously. With an envious glance.
1 Samuel 18:10
And he raved. [Literally 'he prophesied'] but Targum renders, 'and he raved.' A prophet and a madman speak in unintelligible hints.
1 Samuel 18:11
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.
1 Samuel 18:14
Succeeded. Succeeded.3Although ‘שֵׂבֶל’ usually indicates wisdom, here it is used to indicate success.
1 Samuel 18:17
Shaul said. To himself.
Let not my hand be upon him. Lest I will be punished.
But let the hand of the Philistines be upon him. Therefore, he said to him, "and fight Adonoy's wars."
1 Samuel 18:19
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.
1 Samuel 18:21
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.
1 Samuel 18:26
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.
1 Samuel 18:27
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.
1 Samuel 18:29
To fear. To fear.
1 Samuel 18:30
The Philistines officers would venture out. To come in troops to plunder [the Bnei] Yisroel.
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