1 Samuel 22:1-23
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOUR HUNDRED] They soon increased to six hundred (1 Samuel 23:13). Cp. the description given of Jephthah's band in Judges 11:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
GAD] is here mentioned for the first time. After David's accession he became the king's seer (2 Samuel 24:11). He was sent to rebuke David for his sin in numbering the people, and after his death wrote a history of his reign (1 Chronicles 29:29). From 2 Chronicles 29:25 he appears to have been conce... [ Continue Reading ]
IN RAMAH] RM 'on the height.'... [ Continue Reading ]
GOETH AT THY BIDDING] RV 'is taken into thy council.'... [ Continue Reading ]
DID I THEN BEGIN?] RV'Have I today begun?' Ahimelech had been accustomed to place his services at David's disposal.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOOTMEN] Heb. 'runners'; they ran before the king's chariot (1 Samuel 8:11) and sometimes carried news from one place to another. On occasion they acted as executioners, but this was not their special office.... [ Continue Reading ]
Saul probably wished to make an example which would deter others from rendering David any assistance.... [ Continue Reading ]
ABIATHAR shared in all David's wanderings and was made by him joint priest with Zadok. But he shared in Adonijah's rising and was deposed by Solomon.... [ Continue Reading ]