Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 26:7

7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.

i. e. To Saul's Host and Camp. It might seem a bold and strange At[illegible: 1+ letters]empt; but many things are to be considered: 1. That Heroical persons have oft attempted things of no less difficulty and danger than this was; as many credible Historians relate. 2. That David did, and might easily perceive, that they were all fast asleep. 3. That David had a particular Assurance, that God would preserve him to the Kingdom. 4. That he had a special Instinct from God, to this Work; and possibly God might inform him, that he had cast them into a dead sleep, that he might have this second opportunity of manifesting his Innocency towards Saul, and the Justice of his Cause.