Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel.
the Philistines
1 Samuel 28:1,2 And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered …
Aphek
1 Samuel 4:1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against …
Joshua 19:30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.
1 Kings 20:30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell …
Jezreel
1 Samuel 28:4 And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched …
Joshua 19:18 And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
Judges 6:33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the …
1 Kings 18:45,46 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black …
1 Kings 21:1,23 And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite …
2 Kings 9:36 Why they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word …
Hosea 1:4-11 And the LORD said to him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little …
And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.
the lords
1 Samuel 29:6,7 Then Achish called David, and said to him, Surely, as the LORD lives, …
1 Samuel 5:8-11 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines …
1 Samuel 6:4 Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall …
Joshua 13:3 From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even to the borders of Ekron northward, …
but David
1 Samuel 28:1,2 And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered …
Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day?
And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?
Make this fellow. The princes reasoned wisely, according to the common practice of mankind; and it was well for David that they were such good politicians: it was ordered by a gracious Providence that they refused to let David go with them to this battle, in which he must have been either an enemy to his country, or false to his friends and to his trust. Had he fought for the Philistines, he would have fought against God and his country; and had he in the battle gone over to the Israelites, he would have deceived and become a traitor to the hospitable Achish. God therefore delivered him from such disgrace; and by the same kind Providence he was sent back to rescue his wives, and the wives and children of his people, from captivity.
1 Samuel 14:21 Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, …
1 Chronicles 12:19 And there fell some of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines …
Luke 16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely…
Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.
the Lord
1 Samuel 20:3 And David swore moreover, and said, Your father certainly knows that …
1 Samuel 28:10 And Saul swore to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD lives, there …
Deuteronomy 10:20 You shall fear the LORD your God; him shall you serve, and to him …
Isaiah 65:16 That he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the …
Jeremiah 12:16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways …
thou hast
Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, …
1 Peter 2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas …
1 Peter 3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as …
thy going
Numbers 27:17 Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and …
2 Samuel 3:25 You know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to …
2 Kings 19:27 But I know your stayed, and your going out, and your coming in, and …
Psalm 121:8 The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this …
I have not
1 Samuel 29:3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? …
the lords favour, etc. [heb] thou art not good in the eyes of the lords.
Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
displease [heb] do not evil in the eyes of the lords
And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
But what have
1 Samuel 12:3 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before …
1 Samuel 17:29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
1 Samuel 20:8 Therefore you shall deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought …
1 Samuel 26:18 And he said, Why does my lord thus pursue after his servant? for …
with [heb] before
that I may not
1 Samuel 28:2 And David said to Achish, Surely you shall know what your servant …
2 Samuel 16:18,19 And Hushai said to Absalom, No; but whom the LORD, and this people, …
Psalm 34:13,14 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile…
Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For your …
And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.
Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.
So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
And the Philistines
1 Samuel 29:1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: …
Joshua 19:18 And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
2 Samuel 4:4 And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet…
Jezreel Jezreel, of Esdraelon, was a city of Issachar, afterwards celebrated as the residence of the kings of Israel, delightfully situated in the extensive and fertile plain of the same name, which extends from Scythopolis or Bethshan on the east to mount Carmel on the west. Eusebius and Jerome inform us, that it was in their time a place of considerable consequence, lying between Scythopolis on the east and Legio on the west; and the latter (on Ho.
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