'Till I know, &c. — He expresses his hopes very modestly, as one that had entirely cast himself upon God, and committed his way to him, trusting not in his own arts or arms, but in the wisdom, power and goodness of God.
Verse 1 Samuel 22:3. _HE SAID UNTO THE KING OF MOAB_] David could not trust his parents within the reach of Saul, and he found it very inconvenient to them to be obliged to go through all the fatigue...
MIZPEH OF MOAB - A good conjecture connects it with “Zophim” (a word of the same root as Mizpeh) on the top of Pisgah Numbers 23:14. It is probable that David’s descent from Ruth the Moabitess may hav...
CHAPTER 22 _ 1. In the cave of Adullam (1 Samuel 22:1)_ 2. In Moab and Gad's message (1 Samuel 22:3) 3. Saul's discovery of David's visit to Nob (1 Samuel 22:6) 4. The murder of the priests ...
1 SAMUEL 22. DAVID AT ADULLAM AND MOAB: MASSACRE AT NOB (J). The series of narratives in ch. 22 may very well come from the same ancient document, and be the continuation of 1 Samuel 21:1. 1 SAMUEL 2...
COME FORTH. Syriac and Vulgate read. "dwell". No Ellipsis then to be supplied. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim_. App-4....
_Mizpeh of Moab_ Mentioned here only. Perhaps either the strong rock citadel afterwards known as Kir-Moab, now _Kerak_is meant: or some place not in Moab proper, but on the mountains of Abarim or Pisg...
Saul's Reprisals Against David and His Friends, 1 Samuel 22:1-23. _The Prophet Gad and David._ 1 Samuel 22:1-5 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren...
_AND DAVID WENT THENCE TO MIZPEH OF MOAB: AND HE SAID UNTO THE KING OF MOAB, LET MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER, I PRAY THEE, COME FORTH, AND BE WITH YOU, TILL I KNOW WHAT GOD WILL DO FOR ME._ And David wen...
DAVID IN THE CAVE OF ADULLAM. SAUL'S SLAUGHTER OF THE PRIESTS AT NOB 1. Adullam] probably in the valley of Elah between Philistia and Hebron....
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 22 DAVID AT ADULLAM AND MIZPAH V1 David left Gath and went to a cave near Adullam. His brothers and his father’s family discovered where he h...
MIZPEH. — This particular Mizpeh is mentioned nowhere else. The word means _a watch tower;_ it was probably some mountain fortress in Moab. It has been suggested that it was the same as Zophim, a word...
וַ יֵּ֧לֶךְ דָּוִ֛ד מִ שָּׁ֖ם מִצְפֵּ֣ה מֹואָ
CHAPTER XXIX. _ DAVID AT ADULLAM, MIZPEH, AND HARETH._ 1 Samuel 22:1. THE cave of Adullam, to which David fled on leaving Gath, has been placed in various localities even in modern times; but as the...
CAPTAIN OF AN OUTLAWED BAND 1 Samuel 22:1 What a striking analogy there is between the gathering of these outlawed men to David, and the attraction of publicans and sinners, in all ages, to Christ! H...
Leaving Gath, David took refuge in the cave of Adullam, where there gathered to him a band of the outcasts of his own people. They are graphically described as those in "distress," in "debt," and "dis...
And David went thence to Mizpeh of (b) Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, [and be] with you, till I know what God will do for me. (b) For t...
Of Moab, to distinguish it from the city of Benjamin, where Samuel had assembled the people; (Menochius) and perhaps also from the birth-place of Jephte, unless the Moabites had taken possession again...
(3) And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me. (4) And he b...
We enter now on a portion of David's history sensibly different from what we have already had, which closed with the efforts of Jonathan to restore matters and to attach Saul to him at least openly. J...
David now takes his place fully with the excellent of the earth (Hebrews 11:38). There the prophet Gad joins him; he is guided in a direct manner by the plain testimony of God, and soon after he is jo...
AND DAVID WENT THENCE TO MIZPEH OF MOAB,.... So called to distinguish it from a place of the same name in the land of Israel; which Junius says is the same with Malle, and signifies a fortified place,...
And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, [and be] with you, till I know what God will do for me. Ver. 3. _To M...
_David went_ from _thence to Mizpeh_ For the Moabites were at difference with Saul, 1 Samuel 14:47. _Let my father and my mother be with you_ David, perhaps, the rather hoped for this kindness to be s...
1 Companies resort vnto Dauid at Adullam. 3 At Mizpeh he commendeth his parents vnto the King of Moab. 5 Admonished by Gad, hee commeth to Hareth. 6 Saul going to pursue him, complaineth of his ser...
DAVID A FUGITIVE IN JUDAH AND MOAB...
And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab, southeast of the Dead Sea, the country of his great-grandmother; AND HE SAID UNTO THE KING OF: MOAB, LET MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER, I PRAY THEE, COME FORTH, AND...
David wrotePsalms 34:1 at this time, which shows that he was truly restored to the Lord. Verse 4 of that Psalm is particularly significant, "I sought the Lord and He heard me, and delivered me from al...
1-5 See what weak instruments God sometimes uses, to bring about his own purposes. The Son of David is ready to receive distressed souls, who will be commanded by him. He receives all who come unto H...
MIZPEH OF MOAB; so called, to distinguish it from that Mizpeh, 1 SAMUEL 7:5. HE SAID UNTO THE KING OF MOAB; partly because he was related to and descended from one of his people, RUTH 4:10; and partly...
1 Samuel 22:3 David H1732 went H3212 (H8799) Mizpah H4708 Moab H4124 said H559 (H8799) king H4428 Moab...
DAVID ENSURES THE SAFETY OF HIS FATHER AND MOTHER (1 SAMUEL 22:3). The cave was no place for his ageing father and mother, and so David went to Mizpeh of Moab and asked the king of Moab if he would wa...
CONTENTS: David in rejection gathers mighty men. His wanderings and dangers. CHARACTERS: David, Saul, Gad, Ahimelech, Doeg, Abiathar. CONCLUSION: Those who give way to jealousy are in a continual ag...
1 Samuel 22:10. _He enquired of the Lord for him._ This was a lie, which Doeg invented to ingratiate himself with Saul: 1 Samuel 22:22; Psalms 52:3....
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 22:1 ADULLAM is halfway between Gath and Bethlehem, and the cave is probably nearby. David’s family is in danger from Saul, so they join him. But because life in the wilderne...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 22:1. “ADULLAM.” “The site of Adullam (mentioned in Joshua 15:35, etc) has not yet been identified, but from the mention of it in the above and other passages i...
EXPOSITION COMMENCEMENT OF DAVID'S LIFE AS AN OUTLAW. 1 SAMUEL 22:1 THE CAVE ADULLAM. According to Josephus this was situated near a city of the same name ('Ant.,'...
And he went from there, and he escaped to the cave at Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard of it, they went down to him there. And every one that was in distress, and every...
1 Samuel 14:47; 1 Samuel 3:18; 1 Timothy 5:4; 2 Samuel 15:25;...