1 Samuel 27 - Introduction
_DAVID, FLYING TO GATH, DWELLS WITH HIS MEN AT ZIKLAG; WHENCE HE MAKES INCURSIONS UPON THE NEIGHBOURING PEOPLE._ _Before Christ 1056._... [ Continue Reading ]
_DAVID, FLYING TO GATH, DWELLS WITH HIS MEN AT ZIKLAG; WHENCE HE MAKES INCURSIONS UPON THE NEIGHBOURING PEOPLE._ _Before Christ 1056._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND DAVID SAID IN HIS HEART, I SHALL NOW PERISH— David, tired of wandering, weary of struggling with Saul's implacable spirit, sensible of the unequal conflict between too dangerous generosity, and too relentless malice, and unwilling longer to subsist by the spoils of his enemies or the bounty of h... [ Continue Reading ]
ACHISH, THE SON OF MAOCH— Most writers agree, that this _Achish,_ to whom David now fled, was notthe Achish by whom he was so inhospitably received, and from whom he so narrowly escaped, when he was before at Gath. His being called here _Achish, the son of Maoch,_ sufficiently indicates that he was... [ Continue Reading ]
ZIKLAG— _Ziklag_ was situated on the southern frontiers of Judah, not far from Hormah. See Joshua 15:30. Le Clerc conjectures from this verse, that the present book was written after the separation of the ten tribes; but it is easy to suppose, that this passage was added to the sacred text by some l... [ Continue Reading ]
DAVID—INVADED THE GESHURITES, &C.— This action has been condemned by minute critics, as a piece of ingratitude, and a breach of the principles of hospitality: but as the charge is founded upon a supposition that the nations invaded were Philistines, and the confederates of Achish, it will be found t... [ Continue Reading ]
AGAINST THE SOUTH, &C.— The answer was true, but ambiguous; for all those people actually dwelt on the south of Judah. But Achish understood the answer as meaning that the incursion was made on Judah, on the Jerahmeelites and the Kenites themselves, though David asserted no such thing. David, theref... [ Continue Reading ]