_NOW THE PHILISTINES GATHERED TOGETHER ALL THEIR ARMIES TO APHEK: AND THE ISRAELITES PITCHED BY A FOUNTAIN WHICH IS IN JEZREEL._ Aphek (Joshua 12:8) - in the tribe of Issachar, and in the plain of Esdraelon. A person who compares the Bible account of Saul's last battle with the Philistines with the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORDS OF THE PHILISTINES PASSED ON BY HUNDREDS, AND BY THOUSANDS: BUT DAVID AND HIS MEN PASSED ON IN THE REREWARD WITH ACHISH._ David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish - as the commander of the life-guards of Achish, who was general of this invading army of the Philistines.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAID THE PRINCES OF THE PHILISTINES, WHAT DO THESE HEBREWS HERE? AND ACHISH SAID UNTO THE PRINCES OF THE PHILISTINES, IS NOT THIS DAVID, THE SERVANT OF SAUL THE KING OF ISRAEL, WHICH HATH BEEN WITH ME THESE DAYS, OR THESE YEARS, AND I HAVE FOUND NO FAULT IN HIM SINCE HE FELL UNTO ME UNTO THIS... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PRINCES OF THE PHILISTINES WERE WROTH WITH HIM; AND THE PRINCES OF THE PHILISTINES SAID UNTO HIM, MAKE THIS FELLOW RETURN, THAT HE MAY GO AGAIN TO HIS PLACE WHICH THOU HAST APPOINTED HIM, AND LET HIM NOT GO DOWN WITH US TO BATTLE, LEST IN THE BATTLE HE BE AN ADVERSARY TO US: FOR WHEREWITH S... [ Continue Reading ]
_IS NOT THIS DAVID, OF WHOM THEY SANG ONE TO ANOTHER IN DANCES, SAYING, SAUL SLEW HIS THOUSANDS, AND DAVID HIS TEN THOUSANDS?_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN ACHISH CALLED DAVID, AND SAID UNTO HIM, SURELY, AS THE LORD LIVETH, THOU HAST BEEN UPRIGHT, AND THY GOING OUT AND THY COMING IN WITH ME IN THE HOST IS GOOD IN MY SIGHT: FOR I HAVE NOT FOUND EVIL IN THEE SINCE THE DAY OF THY COMING UNTO ME UNTO THIS DAY: NEVERTHELESS THE LORDS FAVOUR THEE NOT._... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE NOW RETURN, AND GO IN PEACE, THAT THOU DISPLEASE NOT THE LORDS OF THE PHILISTINES._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ACHISH ANSWERED AND SAID TO DAVID, I KNOW THAT THOU ART GOOD IN MY SIGHT, AS AN ANGEL OF GOD: NOTWITHSTANDING THE PRINCES OF THE PHILISTINES HAVE SAID, HE SHALL NOT GO UP WITH US TO THE BATTLE._ Achish answered ... I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God. This phrase, which o... [ Continue Reading ]