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1 Samuel 22
David escapes to the cave of Adullam, where many resort to
him, ver. 1, 2. Lodges his parents with the king of Moab, ver. 3, 4.
Comes to the forest of Hareth, ver. 5. Saul complains of his
servants as unfaithful to him, ver. 6-8. On the information of
Doeg, he orders the priests of Nob to be slain, and their city
destroyed, ver. 9-19. David is informed of this by Abiathar, ver.
20-23.
Verse 2. Debt - Probably poor debtors, whom the creditors were obliged
to spare, Exod. xxii, 25. And though their persons were with
David, yet their lands and goods were liable to their creditors.
Captain over them - He did not maintain any injustice or
wickedness, which some of them possibly might be guilty of; but
on the contrary, he instructed and obliged them to the practice of
all justice and honesty.
Verse 3. 'Till I know, &c. - He expresses his hopes very modestly, as
one that had entirely cast himself upon God, and committed his
way to him, trusting not in his own arts or arms, but in the
wisdom, power and goodness of God.
Verse 4. Hold - In holds; the singular number being put for the plural; as
is frequent; that is, as long as David was forced to go from place
to place, and from hold to hold, to secure himself: for it concerned
David to secure his father, and he did doubtless secure him for all
that time; and not only while he was in the hold of Mizpeh, or of
Adullam, which was but a little while.
Verse 5. 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 invited and encouraged to appear on thy behalf. Hereby also
God would exercise David's faith, and wisdom, and courage; and
so prepare him for the kingdom.
Verse 6. Spear - It seems, as an ensign of majesty, for in old times kings
carried a spear instead of a scepter.
Verse 7. Ye Benjamites - You that are of my own tribe and kindred,
from whom David designs to translate the kingdom to another
tribe. Will he distribute profits and preferments among you
Benjamites, as I have done? Will he not rather prefer those of his
own tribe before you?
Verse 8. That all, &c. - See the nature of jealousy, and its arts of
wheedling to extort discoveries of things that are not.
Verse 10. He inquired - David chargeth him with the sin of lying, Psalm
lii, 3, and it is not improbable, that he told many lies not here
expressed; and withal, he was guilty of concealing part of the
truth, which in this case he was obliged to declare for Ahimelech's
just defense, namely, the artifice whereby David circumvented
Ahimelech: making him believe, that he was then going upon the
king's business, so that the service he did to David, was designed
in honour to Saul.
Verse 11. The priests - Of the house of Eli, which God had threatened to
cut off, chap. ii, 31.
Verse 14. And said - He doth not determine the difference between Saul
and David; nor affirm what David now was: but only declared
what David formerly had been, and what he was still, for anything
he knew to the contrary.
Verse 15. Knew nothing of all this - Of any design against thee.
Verse 18. The Edomite - This is noted to wipe off the stain of this
butchery from the Israelitish nation, and to shew, why he was so
ready to do it, because he was one of that nation which had an
implacable hatred against all Israelites, and against the priests of
the Lord.
Verse 19. Both men, &c. - In all the life of Saul, there is no wickedness
to be compared to this. He appears now to be wholly under the
power of that evil spirit which had long tormented him. And this
destruction could not but go to the heart of every pious Israelite,
and make them wish a thousand times, they had been content with
the government of Samuel.
Verse 20. Abiathar - Who by his father's death was now high-priest.
Chapter 22:
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