Then Ahimelech answered the king and said, And who is so faithful, in whom so much confidence has always been reposed, among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son-in-law, and goeth at thy bidding, having access to the inner council of the king as one of his privy counselors, and is honorable in thine house? These three facts surely justified any person in considering David a true friend of the king.
Verse 1 Samuel 22:14. _AND WHO IS SO FAITHFUL_] The word נאמן _neeman_, which we here translate _faithful_, is probably the name of an _officer_. Numbers 12:7....
GOETH AT THY BIDDING - Better, “has access to thy (private) audience,” or council (compare 2 Samuel 23:23, margin)....
CHAPTER 22 _ 1. In the cave of Adullam (1 Samuel 22:1)_ 2. In Moab and Gad's message (1 Samuel 22:3) 3. Saul's discovery of David's visit to Nob (1 Samuel 22:6) 4. The murder of the priests ...
1 SAMUEL 22. DAVID AT ADULLAM AND MOAB: MASSACRE AT NOB (J). The series of narratives in ch. 22 may very well come from the same ancient document, and be the continuation of 1 Samuel 21:1. 1 SAMUEL 2...
GOETH AT THY BIDDING: or, cometh near for audience. Septuagint reads "is captain over thy bodyguard"....
Saul's vengeance on the priests of Nob 6. _that David was discovered_ Lit. "was known." Saul found out that some of his courtiers knew of David's hiding-place in the forest of Hareth. _now Saul abode...
_goeth at thy bidding_ Probably, " HAS ACCESS TO THY AUDIENCE," i.e. is a trusted privy-councillor. Cp. 2 Samuel 23:23, _marg_....
AND GOETH AT THY BIDDING— _Who is a prince under thy command._ LXX, and Houbigant. See ch. 1 Samuel 21:1. Ahimelech's apology sufficiently shews his innocence. Saul's charge was, that he had conspired...
_Saul's Increasing Jealousy. 1 Samuel 22:6-16_ 6 When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that _were_ with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his...
_THEN THE KING SENT TO CALL AHIMELECH THE PRIEST, THE SON OF AHITUB, AND ALL HIS FATHER'S HOUSE, THE PRIESTS THAT WERE IN NOB: AND THEY CAME ALL OF THEM TO THE KING._ No JFB commentary on these verse...
22:14 council, (a-30) Or 'goes in at thy bidding.'...
DAVID IN THE CAVE OF ADULLAM. SAUL'S SLAUGHTER OF THE PRIESTS AT NOB 1. Adullam] probably in the valley of Elah between Philistia and Hebron....
GOETH AT THY BIDDING] RV 'is taken into thy council.'...
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 22 DAVID AT ADULLAM AND MIZPAH V1 David left Gath and went to a cave near Adullam. His brothers and his father’s family discovered where he h...
WHO IS SO FAITHFUL AMONG ALL THY SERVANTS? — The words of the high priest were quiet and dignified, and no doubt spoke the general sentiments of the people respecting David. What he — the guardian of...
וַ יַּ֧עַן אֲחִימֶ֛לֶךְ אֶת ־הַ מֶּ֖לֶךְ וַ
CHAPTER XXIX. _ DAVID AT ADULLAM, MIZPEH, AND HARETH._ 1 Samuel 22:1. THE cave of Adullam, to which David fled on leaving Gath, has been placed in various localities even in modern times; but as the...
THE SLAUGHTER OF DAVID'S FRIENDS 1 Samuel 22:11 The Apostle James says that “the tongue is set on fire of hell.” Surely this was the case when Saul, encamped on the height above Gibeah, scattered hi...
Leaving Gath, David took refuge in the cave of Adullam, where there gathered to him a band of the outcasts of his own people. They are graphically described as those in "distress," in "debt," and "dis...
_Faithful....and honourable, are titles given to people of great distinction at court, chap. ix. 6., Numbers xii. 7., and Genesis xxxiv. 19._...
(11) Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king. (12) And Saul said, Hear now,...
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...
David now takes his place fully with the excellent of the earth (Hebrews 11:38). There the prophet Gad joins him; he is guided in a direct manner by the plain testimony of God, and soon after he is jo...
THEN AHIMELECH ANSWERED THE KING, AND SAID,.... First with respect to David, and then with regard to himself; with respect to David as follows, AND WHO [IS SO] FAITHFUL AMONGST THY SERVANTS AS DAVID;...
_Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who [is so] faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?_ Ver...
_Ahimelech said, Who is so faithful_, &c. Or, rather, _Who was so faithful_, &c.; for it cannot be supposed, after Saul had just accused David of a conspiracy against him, that the high-priest would s...
1 Companies resort vnto Dauid at Adullam. 3 At Mizpeh he commendeth his parents vnto the King of Moab. 5 Admonished by Gad, hee commeth to Hareth. 6 Saul going to pursue him, complaineth of his ser...
David wrotePsalms 34:1 at this time, which shows that he was truly restored to the Lord. Verse 4 of that Psalm is particularly significant, "I sought the Lord and He heard me, and delivered me from al...
6-19 See the nature of jealous malice and its pitiful arts. Saul looks upon all about him as his enemies, because they do not just say as he says. In Ahimelech's answer to Saul we have the language o...
He doth not determine the differences between Saul and David, nor affirm what David now was; but only declared what David had formerly been, both really, and in public fame and opinion....
SAUL REVEALS HIS TRUE COLOURS (1 SAMUEL 22:6). While David was going through his period of refining, Saul was displaying his true colours. Unlike David he did not learn from his tribulations. He rath...
CONTENTS: David in rejection gathers mighty men. His wanderings and dangers. CHARACTERS: David, Saul, Gad, Ahimelech, Doeg, Abiathar. CONCLUSION: Those who give way to jealousy are in a continual ag...
1 Samuel 22:10. _He enquired of the Lord for him._ This was a lie, which Doeg invented to ingratiate himself with Saul: 1 Samuel 22:22; Psalms 52:3....
_And Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David._ IN DEFENCE OF THE KING Now, it was for acts of kindness to David, the outcast and fugitive, that A...
_And the prophet Gad said unto David._ A FRIEND AND A FOE I. The visit of Gad the seer. David had been brought very low through his own mistakes. God proved him in the hold. Then He sent to him. Whe...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 22:6. “ABODE UNDER A TREE,” etc. Rather, _was sitting under a tamarisk tree upon the height_. (For Ramah see Notes on 1 Samuel 1:1.) “Oriental princes frequentl...
EXPOSITION COMMENCEMENT OF DAVID'S LIFE AS AN OUTLAW. 1 SAMUEL 22:1 THE CAVE ADULLAM. According to Josephus this was situated near a city of the same name ('Ant.,'...
And he went from there, and he escaped to the cave at Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard of it, they went down to him there. And every one that was in distress, and every...
1 Samuel 17:25; 1 Samuel 18:13; 1 Samuel 18:27; 1 Samuel 19:4;...
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 th...