_AND DAVID SAID IN HIS HEART, I SHALL NOW PERISH ONE DAY BY THE HAND OF SAUL: THERE IS NOTHING BETTER FOR ME THAN THAT I SHOULD SPEEDILY ESCAPE INTO THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES; AND SAUL SHALL DESPAIR OF ME, TO SEEK ME ANY MORE IN ANY COAST OF ISRAEL: SO SHALL I ESCAPE OUT OF HIS HAND._ There is no... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID AROSE, AND HE PASSED OVER WITH THE SIX HUNDRED MEN THAT WERE WITH HIM UNTO ACHISH, THE SON OF MAOCH, KING OF GATH._ Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath. The particular description of this king's family creates a presumption that he was a different king from the reigning sovereign on D... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID DWELT WITH ACHISH AT GATH, HE AND HIS MEN, EVERY MAN WITH HIS HOUSEHOLD, EVEN DAVID WITH HIS TWO WIVES, AHINOAM THE JEZREELITESS, AND ABIGAIL THE CARMELITESS, NABAL'S WIFE._ David dwelt ... he and his men. He was now in very different circumstances from those of his first arrival in the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT WAS TOLD SAUL THAT DAVID WAS FLED TO GATH: AND HE SOUGHT NO MORE AGAIN FOR HIM._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SAID UNTO ACHISH, IF I HAVE NOW FOUND GRACE IN THINE EYES, LET THEM GIVE ME A PLACE IN SOME TOWN IN THE COUNTRY, THAT I MAY DWELL THERE: FOR WHY SHOULD THY SERVANT DWELL IN THE ROYAL CITY WITH THEE?_ Let them give me a place in some town in the country. It was a prudent arrangement on th... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN ACHISH GAVE HIM ZIKLAG THAT DAY: WHEREFORE ZIKLAG PERTAINETH UNTO THE KINGS OF JUDAH UNTO THIS DAY._ Ziklag. Though originally assigned to Judah (Joshua 15:31), and subsequently to Simeon (Joshua 19:5: cf. 1 Chronicles 4:30), this town had never been possessed by the Israelites. It belonged t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE TIME THAT DAVID DWELT IN THE COUNTRY OF THE PHILISTINES WAS A FULL YEAR AND FOUR MONTHS._ And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines, х_ SADEH_ (H7704)] - field of the Philistines, so called from its beauty and productiveness (cf. Judges 15:5: see Robinson's 'Biblical... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID AND HIS MEN WENT UP, AND INVADED THE GESHURITES, AND THE GEZRITES, AND THE AMALEKITES: FOR THOSE NATIONS WERE OF OLD THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND, AS THOU GOEST TO SHUR, EVEN UNTO THE LAND OF EGYPT._ David ... went up, and invaded the Geshurites (see Joshua 13:2 ), and the Gezerites - or... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SMOTE THE LAND, AND LEFT NEITHER MAN NOR WOMAN ALIVE, AND TOOK AWAY THE SHEEP, AND THE OXEN, AND THE ASSES, AND THE CAMELS, AND THE APPAREL, AND RETURNED, AND CAME TO ACHISH._ David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive. 'Occupying the high plateau (er-Kakhmah) which overh... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ACHISH SAID, WHITHER HAVE YE MADE A ROAD TO DAY? AND DAVID SAID, AGAINST THE SOUTH OF JUDAH, AND AGAINST THE SOUTH OF THE JERAHMEELITES, AND AGAINST THE SOUTH OF THE KENITES._ Achish said, Whither have ye made a road today? х_ 'EE_ (H335) _ PªSHATTEM_ (H6584)] - Whither have you spread yoursel... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SAVED NEITHER MAN NOR WOMAN ALIVE, TO BRING TIDINGS TO GATH, SAYING, LEST THEY SHOULD TELL ON US, SAYING, SO DID DAVID, AND SO WILL BE HIS MANNER ALL THE WHILE HE DWELLETH IN THE COUNTRY OF THE PHILISTINES._ David saved neither man nor woman alive, [the Septuagint has correctly rendered... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ACHISH BELIEVED DAVID, SAYING, HE HATH MADE HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL UTTERLY TO ABHOR HIM; THEREFORE HE SHALL BE MY SERVANT FOR EVER._ Achish believed David. Achish was deceived by the tale, and considered that, as so great an outrage upon his countrymen would alienate all Israel from David, he might... [ Continue Reading ]