_THEN CAME DAVID TO NOB TO AHIMELECH THE PRIEST: AND AHIMELECH WAS AFRAID AT THE MEETING OF DAVID, AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHY ART THOU ALONE, AND NO MAN WITH THEE?_ Then came David ... to Ahimelech. Nob [the Vatican copy of the Septuagint has Noumba; the Alexandrian (Tischendorf's notes), Noba], a city... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SAID UNTO AHIMELECH THE PRIEST, THE KING HATH COMMANDED ME A BUSINESS, AND HATH SAID UNTO ME, LET NO MAN KNOW ANY THING OF THE BUSINESS WHEREABOUT I SEND THEE, AND WHAT I HAVE COMMANDED THEE: AND I HAVE APPOINTED MY SERVANTS TO SUCH AND SUCH A PLACE._ The king hath commanded me a busines... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THEREFORE WHAT IS UNDER THINE HAND? GIVE ME FIVE LOAVES OF BREAD IN MINE HAND, OR WHAT THERE IS PRESENT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PRIEST ANSWERED DAVID, AND SAID, THERE IS NO COMMON BREAD UNDER MINE HAND, BUT THERE IS_ _ HALLOWED BREAD; IF THE YOUNG MEN HAVE KEPT THEMSELVES AT LEAST FROM WOMEN._ Hallowed bread, х_ LECHEM_ (H3899) _ QODESH_ (H6944)] - consecrated bread. There might be plenty of bread in his house, but... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID ANSWERED THE PRIEST, AND SAID UNTO HIM, OF A TRUTH WOMEN HAVE BEEN KEPT FROM US ABOUT THESE THREE DAYS, SINCE I CAME OUT, AND THE VESSELS OF THE YOUNG MEN ARE HOLY, AND THE BREAD IS IN A MANNER COMMON, YEA, THOUGH IT WERE SANCTIFIED THIS DAY IN THE VESSEL._ These three days - as required... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THE PRIEST GAVE HIM HALLOWED BREAD: FOR THERE WAS NO BREAD THERE BUT THE SHEWBREAD, THAT WAS TAKEN FROM BEFORE THE LORD, TO PUT HOT BREAD IN THE DAY WHEN IT WAS TAKEN AWAY._ There-in the tabernacle. The removal of the old and the substitution of new bread was done on the Sabbath (Leviticus 24:8... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW A CERTAIN MAN OF THE SERVANTS OF SAUL WAS THERE THAT DAY, DETAINED BEFORE THE LORD; AND HIS NAME WAS DOEG, AN EDOMITE, THE CHIEFEST OF THE HERDMEN THAT BELONGED TO SAUL._ Detained before the Lord, х_ NE`ªTSAAR_ (H6113) _ LIPNEEY_ (H6440) _ YAHWEH_ (H3068), assembled before Jehovah; from the id... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SAID UNTO AHIMELECH, AND IS THERE NOT HERE UNDER THINE HAND SPEAR OR SWORD? FOR I HAVE NEITHER BROUGHT MY SWORD NOR MY WEAPONS WITH ME, BECAUSE THE KING'S BUSINESS REQUIRED HASTE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PRIEST SAID, THE SWORD OF GOLIATH THE PHILISTINE, WHOM THOU SLEWEST IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH, BEHOLD, IT IS HERE WRAPPED IN A CLOTH BEHIND THE EPHOD: IF THOU WILT TAKE THAT, TAKE IT: FOR THERE IS NO OTHER SAVE THAT HERE. AND DAVID SAID, THERE IS NONE LIKE THAT; GIVE IT ME._ Sword of Goliath -... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID AROSE, AND FLED THAT DAY FOR FEAR OF SAUL, AND WENT TO ACHISH THE KING OF GATH._ David ... fled that day for fear of Saul. The king's uncontrolable violence and jealousy of David, together with the number of court parasites ready to give information to Saul of his place of refuge, render... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SERVANTS OF ACHISH SAID UNTO HIM, IS NOT THIS DAVID THE KING OF THE LAND? DID THEY NOT SING ONE TO ANOTHER OF HIM IN DANCES, SAYING, SAUL HATH SLAIN HIS THOUSANDS, AND DAVID HIS TEN THOUSANDS?_ Is not this David the king of the land? The report of his destined elevation to the throne seems... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID LAID UP THESE WORDS IN HIS HEART, AND WAS SORE AFRAID OF ACHISH THE KING OF GATH._ David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath This terror, and the sad extremities of destitution and peril to which he was now reduced, may be inferred from the sc... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE CHANGED HIS BEHAVIOUR BEFORE THEM, AND FEIGNED HIMSELF MAD IN THEIR HANDS, AND SCRABBLED ON THE DOORS OF THE GATE, AND LET HIS SPITTLE FALL DOWN UPON HIS BEARD._ And he changed his behaviour, х_ WAYªSHANOW_ (H8138) _ 'ET_ (H854) _ TA`ªMOW_ (H2940)] - and disfigured his understanding (Geseni... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAID ACHISH UNTO HIS SERVANTS, LO, YE SEE THE MAN IS MAD: WHEREFORE THEN HAVE YE BROUGHT HIM TO ME?_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HAVE I NEED OF MAD MEN, THAT YE HAVE BROUGHT THIS FELLOW TO PLAY THE MAD MAN IN MY PRESENCE? SHALL THIS FELLOW COME INTO MY HOUSE?_ Have I need of mad men? Jewish writers say that the wife and daughter of Achish were both mad; and this statement, assuming the fact to be so, gives an emphatic impor... [ Continue Reading ]