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CHAPTER 23
_ 1. The victory over the Philistines at Keilah (1 Samuel 23:1)_
2. In the wilderness of Ziph (1 Samuel 23:14)
3. Saul's return (1 Samuel 23:27)
Keilah was about six miles southeast of A...
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1 SAMUEL 23. DAVID ESCAPES FROM SAUL (J).
1 Samuel 23:1. David hears that the Philistines are raiding the
territory of Keilah (p. 31), a little S. of Adullam. He ascertains by
oracles, probably using...
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LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
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The treachery of the Keilites
7. _hath delivered him_ Lit. _hath rejected him and delivered him_. So
blind was Saul as to imagine that it was not himself but David whom
God had rejected. The Sept. re...
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_David's and Jonathan's Meeting._ 1 Samuel 23:7-18
7 And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said,
God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering
into a tow...
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_AND DAVID SAW THAT SAUL WAS COME OUT TO SEEK HIS LIFE: AND DAVID WAS
IN THE WILDERNESS OF ZIPH IN A WOOD._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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DAVID DELIVERS KEILAH AND AFTERWARDS RETIRES TO THE WILDERNESS OF ZIPH
AND MAON
6. _With_ AN EPHOD IN HIS HAND] This is inserted to explain how it was
that David was able to enquire of the LORD: see...
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 23
DAVID SAVES THE TOWN OF KEILAH
V1 Someone told David that the *Philistines were attacking the town of
Keilah. And they were stealing the gr...
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IN A WOOD. — Some have understood this as a proper name, Horesh.
There is no trace of the wood now. The land lost its ornament of trees
centuries ago, through the desolating hand of man. — _Van der Ve...
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וַ יַּ֣רְא דָוִ֔ד כִּֽי ־יָצָ֥א
שָׁא֖וּל לְ בַקֵּ֣שׁ אֶת ־נַפְשֹׁ֑ו
וְ דָוִ֥ד בְּ מִדְבַּר...
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CHAPTER XXX.
_ DAVID AT KEILAH, ZIPH, AND MAON._
1 Samuel 23:1.
THE period of David's life shortly sketched in this chapter, must have
been full of trying and exciting events. If we knew all the det...
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A RELENTLESS PURSUIT FOILED
1 Samuel 23:15
Amid outward strife, God is sure to provide some rill of human love-a
tender friendship, a Jonathan. See Psalms 106:46. This is the mission
of a friend-to...
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The series of happenings recorded in this chapter reveals most vividly
the appalling condition of affairs in the kingdom.
Saul, still nominally king, filled with hatred for David, was devoting
all hi...
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(14) В¶ And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and
remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him
every day, but God delivered him not into his hand. (15) And David...
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We enter now on a portion of David's history sensibly different from
what we have already had, which closed with the efforts of Jonathan to
restore matters and to attach Saul to him at least openly. J...
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David, despised as he may be, is the king and saviour of the people;
he puts the Philistines to flight with great slaughter. He finds
nothing but treachery in Israel, of which Saul makes use in the ho...
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AND DAVID SAW THAT SAUL WAS COME OUT TO SEEK HIS LIFE,.... Either he
saw him with his bodily eyes from the top of the mountain where he
was, 1 Samuel 23:14; or he perceived, he understood by informati...
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And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David [was]
in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
Ver. 15. _And David saw._] By his scouts and intelligence, he well
perceived his present da...
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1 Dauid enquiring of the Lord by Abiathar, rescueth Keilah.
7 God shewing him the comming of Saul and the trecherie of the
Keilites, he escapeth from Keilah.
14 In Ziph Ionathan commeth and comforte...
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IN THE WILDERNESS OF ZIPH...
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David remains devoted to his people Israel. It is disturbing to him to
hear that the Philistines were fighting against Keilah and robbing
grain from the threshing floors. Saul shows no concern for the...
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14-18 David made no attempt against Saul; he kept God's way, waited
God's time, and was content to secure himself in woods and
wildernesses. Let it make us think the worse of this world, which
often g...
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DAVID SAW; either by information from his spies, or by prospect from
the top of the mountain where he was....
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1 Samuel 23:15 David H1732 saw H7200 (H8799) Saul H7586 out H3318
(H8804) seek H1245 (H8763) life H5315 David H1732 Wilderness H4057
Ziph H2128 forest H2793
life - Heb. nephesh, soul, Genesis 44:30...
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SECTION 4 SUBSECTION B. DAVID DELIVERS KEILAH FROM AN INVASION BY THE
PHILISTINES, IS VISITED BY JONATHAN, AND EVADES CAPTURE BY SAUL (1
SAMUEL 23:1)
a David Delivers Keilah From An Invasion By The...
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CONTENTS: Wanderings and adventures of David.
CHARACTERS: God, David, Saul, Jonathan, Abiathar.
CONCLUSION: Whatever befalls us, if we acknowledge God in all our ways
and seek direction from Him, Go...
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1 Samuel 23:1. _Keilah,_ a walled town in the south of Judah, near the
sources of the brook Besor.
1 Samuel 23:4. _David enquired of the Lord yet again._ Gideon also
asked a double sign in time of fe...
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_Arise, go down to Keilah._
THE TRAINING IN THE WILDERNESS
The contrast between David at Nob or Gath and at Hareth and Keilah is
most marked.
1. It is God’s will he desires to know (1 Samuel 23:4)....
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 23:14 ZIPH was about 5 miles (8 km)
southeast of Hebron, near where the land starts going down toward the
Dead Sea. HORESH was probably a grove of trees nearby.
⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var im...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES
1 Samuel 23:13. “THEY WENT WHITHERSOEVER,” etc. Lit. “They
wandered about where they wandered about, _i.e._, wherever they could
go without danger.” _(Keil.)_
1 Samuel 2...
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EXPOSITION
SAUL'S PURSUIT OF DAVID IN THE WILDERNESS OF ZIPH (1 Samuel 23:14-9).
1 SAMUEL 23:14, 1 SAMUEL 23:15
STRONG HOLDS. Natural fortresses in the woods and mountains are meant,
and places diff...
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Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines are fighting
against Keilah, and they're robbing their threshingfloors. So David
inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philisti...
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Genesis 44:30...