The prophet Gad - Mentioned here for the first time. One may conjecture that Samnel had sent him privately from Naioth to tell David not to abide in the hold. Whether he stayed with David or returned to the College of the prophets does not appear. For later notices of him see marginal references.
The forest of Hareth is unknown.
Verse 1 Samuel 22:5. _GET THEE INTO THE LAND OF JUDAH_] Gad saw that in this place alone he could find safety....
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...
_the prophet Gad_ Mentioned here for the first time, and not again till David had come to the throne, when he appears as holding the office of "the king's seer." He was one of the chroniclers of David...
THE PROPHET GAD SAID UNTO DAVID, ABIDE NOT IN THE HOLD— It was natural to think that David would be more safe in his own tribe, and in a thick forest, than in the tribe of Saul, and a cave; and safety...
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 THE PROPHET GAD SAID UNTO DAVID, ABIDE NOT IN THE HOLD; DEPART, AND GET THEE INTO THE LAND OF JUDAH. THEN DAVID DEPARTED, AND CAME INTO THE FOREST OF HARETH._ The prophet Gad ... Abide not in th...
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....
GAD] is here mentioned for the first time. After David's accession he became the king's seer (2 Samuel 24:11). He was sent to rebuke David for his sin in numbering the people, and after his death wrot...
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...
THE PROPHET GAD. — From this time onward throughout the life and reign of David, Gad the prophet occupied evidently a marked place. He is mentioned as the king’s seer in 2 Samuel 24:11; and in 1 Chron...
וַ יֹּאמֶר֩ גָּ֨ד הַ נָּבִ֜יא אֶל ־דָּוִ֗ד
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...
_Haret, west of Jerusalem. Septuagint read "the town of Haret," (Eusebius) or "Sarec." (Menochius) --- Rama, "the height," in Gabaa. (Calmet) --- God would not suffer David and his followers to contin...
(5) And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth. I admire the conduct of David in t...
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 THE PROPHET GAD SAID UNTO DAVID,.... Who either accompanied him in his exile, or was sent unto him on this account, being one of the company of the prophets, over whom Samuel was president, 1 Samu...
And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth. Ver. 5. _And the prophet Gad said unt...
_The Prophet Gad said unto David_ We read nothing of this prophet before; and it is likely God raised him up at this time, on purpose for the support and direction of David. _Abide not in the hold_ Th...
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...
And the Prophet Gad said unto David, in a direct message which shows the loving care of God, ABIDE NOT IN THE HOLD; DEPART, AND GET THEE INTO THE LAND OF JUDAH. The Prophet Gad may have been one of th...
DAVID A FUGITIVE IN JUDAH AND MOAB...
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...
ABIDE NOT IN THE HOLD; do not shut up thyself in holes and holds. GET THEE INTO THE LAND OF JUDAH; go and show thyself in the land of Judah, that thou mayst publicly put in thy claim to the kingdom af...
1 Samuel 22:5 prophet H5030 Gad H1410 said H559 (H8799) David H1732 stay H3427 (H8799) stronghold H4686 depart...
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....
_And the prophet Gad said unto David._ A FRIEND AND A FOE I. The visit of Gad the seer. David had been brought very low through his own mistakes. God proved him in the hold. Then He sent to him. Whe...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 22:5 The STRONGHOLD was probably not in Judah, since Gad told David to GO INTO THE LAND OF JUDAH. It may have been Masada, the mesa on the western shore of the Dead Sea which...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 22:5. “GAD.” It must remain a matter for conjecture whether Gad had gone with David to Adullam, or whether he now comes to him for the first time with a special...
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...
Abide not — Do not shut up thyself here. Judah — Go and shew thyself in the land of Judah, that thou mayest publicly put in thy claim to the kingdom after Saul's death; and that thy friends may be inv...