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Verse 1 Samuel 22:17. _BUT THE SERVANTS OF THE KING WOULD NOT_] They
dared to disobey the commands of the king in a case of such injustice,
inhumanity, and irreligion....
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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 ...
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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...
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FOOTMEN. runners.
HAND. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause) for the help given
by it. App-6.
WHEN HE FLED. that he was fleeing....
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_the footmen_ Lit. "the runners." See on ch. 1 Samuel 8:11; and for
their employment as executioners comp. 2 Kings 10:25 (E. V. _guard_).
_would not put forth their hand_ They shrank from executing a...
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Saul's vengeance on the priests of Nob
6. _that David was discovered_ Lit. "was known." Saul found out that
some of his courtiers knew of David's hiding-place in the forest of
Hareth.
_now Saul abode...
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_Saul's Slaughter of the Priests._ 1 Samuel 22:17-23
17 And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and
slay the priests of the Lord; because their hand also _is_ with David,
and b...
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_AND THE KING SAID UNTO THE FOOTMEN THAT STOOD ABOUT HIM, TURN, AND
SLAY THE PRIESTS OF THE LORD; BECAUSE THEIR HAND ALSO IS WITH DAVID,
AND BECAUSE THEY KNEW WHEN HE FLED, AND DID NOT SHEW IT TO ME....
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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....
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FOOTMEN] Heb. 'runners'; they ran before the king's chariot (1 Samuel
8:11) and sometimes carried news from one place to another. On
occasion they acted as executioners, but this was not their special...
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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...
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THE FOOTMEN. — “Footmen,” literally _runners._ These
“guards,” or “lictors,” were men who ran by the royal chariot
as an escort. They are still the usual attendants of any great man in
the East. From...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר הַ מֶּ֡לֶךְ לָ † רָצִים֩...
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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...
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THE SLAUGHTER OF DAVID'S FRIENDS
1 Samuel 22:11
The Apostle James says that “the tongue is set on fire of hell.”
Surely this was the case when Saul, encamped on the height above
Gibeah, scattered hi...
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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...
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And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and
slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also [is] with David,
and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me....
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_Messengers. Hebrew, "runners." These officers remained at court and
were people of great account, (Calmet) like the king's guards, 2 Kings
xv. 1., and 3 Kings i. 5. (Haydock) --- Lord, out of reveren...
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(16) And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and
all thy father's house. (17) And the king said unto the footmen that
stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; becaus...
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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...
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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...
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AND THE KING SAID UNTO THE FOOTMEN THAT STOOD ABOUT HIM,.... Or the
"runners" f; the running footmen, that used to run before him when he
went out from place to place, and were here waiting on him, re...
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And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and
slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also [is] with David,
and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me....
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_Thou shalt surely die, thou and all thy father's house_ A cruel
resolution; for what had the rest of the priests done to deserve such
a bloody execution? _The servants of the king would not_, &c. In...
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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...
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And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, the runners,
the members of the guard, who acted also as executioners, TURN, AND
SLAY THE PRIESTS OF THE LORD, BECAUSE THEIR HAND ALSO IS WITH...
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SAUL TAKES REVENGE UPON THE PRIESTS OF NOB...
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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...
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FOOTMEN:
Or, guard: _Heb._ the runners...
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6-19 See the nature of jealous malice and its pitiful arts. Saul
looks upon all about him as his enemies, because they do not just say
as he says. In Ahimelech's answer to Saul we have the language o...
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Choosing rather to offend the king, by disobeying his wicked and
bloody command, than to offend God, by shedding the blood of such
innocent and sacred persons....
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‘ And the king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn, and
slay the priests of YHWH, because their hand also is with David, and
because they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me.” Bu...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
1 Samuel 22:6. “ABODE UNDER A TREE,” etc. Rather, _was sitting
under a tamarisk tree upon the height_. (For Ramah see Notes on 1
Samuel 1:1.) “Oriental princes frequentl...
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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.,'...
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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...
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1 Kings 1:5; 1 Kings 18:4; 1 Samuel 14:45; 1 Samuel 20:33; 1 Samuel