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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....
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GOETH AT THY BIDDING - Better, “has access to thy (private)
audience,” or council (compare 2 Samuel 23:23, margin)....
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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 ...
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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...
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GOETH AT THY BIDDING: or, cometh near for audience. Septuagint reads
"is captain over thy bodyguard"....
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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...
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_goeth at thy bidding_ Probably, " HAS ACCESS TO THY AUDIENCE," i.e.
is a trusted privy-councillor. Cp. 2 Samuel 23:23, _marg_....
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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22:14 council, (a-30) Or 'goes in at thy bidding.'...
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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....
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GOETH AT THY BIDDING] RV 'is taken into thy council.'...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Faithful....and honourable, are titles given to people of great
distinction at court, chap. ix. 6., Numbers xii. 7., and Genesis
xxxiv. 19._...
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(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,...
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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 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...
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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;...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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SAUL TAKES REVENGE UPON THE PRIESTS OF NOB...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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.,'...
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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...
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1 Samuel 17:25; 1 Samuel 18:13; 1 Samuel 18:27; 1 Samuel 19:4;...
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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...