And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
A.M.
1 Samuel 16:1,13 And the LORD said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing …
1 Samuel 23:17 And he said to him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father shall …
1 Samuel 25:30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord …
Psalm 116:11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire comes, it …
Isaiah 40:27-31 Why say you, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from the …
Isaiah 51:12 I, even I, am he that comforts you: who are you, that you should …
Mark 4:40 And he said to them, Why are you so fearful? how is it that you have no faith?
2 Corinthians 7:5 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but …
I shall This was a rash conclusion: God had caused him to be anointed king of Israel, and promised his accession to the throne, and had so often interposed in his behalf, that he was authorised to believe the very reverse.
perish [heb] be consumed
there is nothing
1 Samuel 22:5 And the prophet Gad said to David, Abide not in the hold; depart, …
Exodus 14:12 Is not this the word that we did tell you in Egypt, saying, Let us …
Numbers 14:3 And why has the LORD brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, …
Proverbs 3:5,6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not to your own understanding…
Isaiah 30:15,16 For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning …
Lamentations 3:26,27 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation …
into the land
1 Samuel 27:10,11 And Achish said, Where have you made a road to day? And David said, …
1 Samuel 21:10-15 And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish …
1 Samuel 28:1,2 And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered …
1 Samuel 29:2-11 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands…
1 Samuel 30:1-3 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on …
And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.
And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?
Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
Ziklag Ziklag was at first given to the tribe of Judah, but was afterwards ceded to that of Simeon; but as it bordered on the Philistines, if they had ever been expelled, they had retaken it. Eusebius simply says it was situated in the south of Canaan.
1 Samuel 30:1,14 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on …
1 Samuel 19:5 For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and …
2 Samuel 1:1 Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned …
1 Chronicles 4:30 And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,
1 Chronicles 12:1,20 Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept …
Nehemiah 11:28 And at Ziklag, and at Mekonah, and in the villages thereof,
And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.
A.M.
Joshua 13:2,13 This is the land that yet remains: all the borders of the Philistines, …
2 Samuel 13:37,38 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of …
2 Samuel 14:23,32 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem…
2 Samuel 15:8 For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, …
1 Chronicles 2:23 And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, …
Gezrites. or, Gerzites These people seem to be the Gerrhenians, (2 Mac
the Amalekites
Joshua 16:10 And they drove not out the Canaanites that dwelled in Gezer: but …
Judges 1:29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelled in Gezer; …
1 Kings 9:15-17 And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for …
as thou goest
1 Samuel 15:7,8 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until you come to Shur, …
1 Samuel 30:1 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on …
Exodus 17:14-16 And the LORD said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, …
And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
Whither, etc. or, Did you not make a road.
And David,
1 Samuel 21:2 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me …
Genesis 27:19,20,24 And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau your first born; I have done …
Joshua 2:4-6 And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There …
2 Samuel 17:20 And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they …
Psalm 119:29,163 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me your law graciously…
Proverbs 29:25 The fear of man brings a snare: but whoever puts his trust in the …
Galatians 2:11-13 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, …
Ephesians 4:25 Why putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: …
Against David here meant the Geshurites, and Gezrites, and Amalekites, which people occupied that part of the country which lies to the south of Judah. But Achish, as was intended, understood him in a different sense, and believed that he had attacked his own countrymen. David's answer, therefore, though not an absolute falsehood, was certainly an equivocation intended to deceive, and therefore incompatible with that sense of truth and honour which became him as a prince, and a professor of true religion. From these, and similar passages, we may observe the strict impartiality of the Sacred Scriptures. They present us with the most faithful delineation of human nature; they exhibit the frailties of kings, priests, and prophets, with equal truth; and examples of vice and frailty, as well as of piety and virtue, are held up, that we may guard against the errors to which the best men are exposed.
the Jerahmeelites
1 Chronicles 2:9,25 The sons also of Hezron, that were born to him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, …
Kenites
1 Samuel 15:6 And Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among …
Numbers 24:21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, …
Judges 1:16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law…
Judges 4:11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father …
Judges 5:24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed …
And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.
And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.
