-
Verse 1 Samuel 22:15. _DID I THEN BEGIN TO INQUIRE OF GOD_] He
probably means that his inquiring _now_ for David was no _new thing_,
having often done so before, and without ever being informed it wa...
-
DID I THEN BEGIN ... - Some lay the stress upon the word “begin,”
as though Ahimelech’s justification was that he had often before
inquired of the Lord for David when employed on the king’s affairs.
B...
-
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...
-
DID.... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.
NOR. This word is read in the text of Septuagint and Syriac....
-
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...
-
_Did I then begin_ THAT DAY DID I BEGIN, &c.? The stress is upon these
words. Ahimelech pleads that there was no harm in doing as he had
often done before.
_be it far from me_ To plot against the kin...
-
_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...
-
_DID I THEN BEGIN TO INQUIRE OF GOD FOR HIM? BE IT FAR FROM ME: LET
NOT THE KING IMPUTE ANY THING UNTO HIS SERVANT, NOR TO ALL THE HOUSE
OF MY FATHER: FOR THY SERVANT KNEW NOTHING OF ALL THIS, LESS OR...
-
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....
-
DID I THEN BEGIN?] RV'Have I today begun?' Ahimelech had been
accustomed to place his services at David's disposal....
-
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...
-
DID I THEN BEGIN TO ENQUIRE? — The English translation of the Hebrew
here would imply that David had on many previous occasions received
through him (the high priest) Divine directions from the Urim a...
-
הַ יֹּ֧ום הַחִלֹּ֛תִי _לִ_†_שְׁאָל_†
־לֹ֥ו בֵ...
-
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...
-
(i) Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from me: let
not the king impute [any] thing unto his servant, [nor] to all the
house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this,...
-
CHAPTER XXII.
_ For him? We might read without an interrogation, "I have to-day
begun...." (Chaldean) never suspecting that it would be disagreeable
to the king. (Calmet) --- His character and his de...
-
(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...
-
DID I THEN BEGIN TO INQUIRE OF GOD FOR HIM?.... Was this the first
time of inquiring of God for him? no; I have done this many a time,
when he has been going upon the king's business, engaging in war...
-
Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not
the king impute [any] thing unto his servant, [nor] to all the house
of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less...
-
_Did I then begin to inquire of God for him?_ These words do not
necessarily imply that Ahimelech had inquired of God for David. Doeg
indeed charged him with doing it, but as the sacred historian has...
-
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...
-
LESS OR MORE:
_ Heb._ little or great...
-
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...
-
ANY THING, or, _this thing_, to wit, which thou now chargest me with,
that I should assist David in any evil design against thee. THY
SERVANT KNEW NOTHING OF ALL THIS; or, of thy suspicion concerning...
-
1 Samuel 22:15 then H3117 begin H2490 (H8689) inquire H7592 (H8800)
God H430 it H2486 king H4428 impute...
-
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 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 Peter 3:16; 1 Peter 3:17; 1 Samuel 25:36; 2 Corinthians 1:12;...
-
Knew nothing of all this — Of any design against thee....