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1 Samuel 27
David retires to Gath, ver. 1-4. Achish gives him Ziklag,
ver. 5-7. David destroys the Canaanites, ver. 8, 9. Persuades
Achish he fought against Judah, ver. 10-12.
Verse 1. I shall perish - But this was certainly a very great fault in
David: for
1. This proceeded from gross distrust of God's promise and
providence; and that after such repeated demonstrations of God's
peculiar care over him.
2. He forsakes the place where God had settled him, chap. xxii, 5,
and given him both assurance and experience of his protection
there.
3. He voluntarily runs upon that rock, which he cursed his
enemies for throwing him upon, chap. xxvi, 19, and upon many
other snares and dangers, as the following history will shew; and
withal, deprives the people of the Lord of those succors which he
might have given them, in case of a battle. But God hereby
designed to withdraw David from the Israelites, that they might
fall by the hand of the Philistines, without any reproach or
inconvenience to David.
Verse 4. Sought no more for him - At their meeting Saul's heart was
deeply wounded, and he had said, "Return, my son David, Be
with me as in time past." Nor have we the least proof, that he
would have sought for him again, with any other design.
Verse 5. Give me a place - A prudent desire. Hereby David designed to
preserve his people, both from the vices, which conversation with
the Philistines would have exposed them to; and from that envy,
and malice, which diversity of religion might have caused. With
thee - Which is too great an honour for me, and too burdensome
to thee, and may be an occasion of offense to thy people.
Verse 6. Gave Ziklag - Not only to inhabit, but to possess it as his own.
Which he did, to lay the greater obligations upon David, whom he
knew so able to serve him. It was given to the tribe of Judah
before, Josh. xv, 31, but the Philistines kept the possession of it
'till this time. And being given by them to David, it now belonged
not to the tribe of Judah; but to the king of Judah, David and his
heirs forever. To this day - This, and some such clauses seem to
have been added, after the main substance of the several books
was written.
Verse 8. Amalekites - The remnant of those whom Saul destroyed, chap.
xv, 3-9, who retired into remote and desert places.
Verse 9. Let neither man, &c. - In that part where he came: but there
were more of the Amalekites yet left in another part of that land.
Verse 10. David - These and the following words are ambiguous, and
contrary to that simplicity which became David, both as a prince,
and as an eminent professor of the true religion. The fidelity of
Achish to him, and the confidence he put in him, aggravates his
sin in thus deceiving him, which David seems penitently to reflect
on, when he prays, Remove from me the way of lying.
Chapter 27:
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