Chapter 29

1
the Philistines 1Sam 28:1-2

Aphek 1Sam 4:1; Josh 19:30; 1Kgs 20:30

Jezreel 1Sam 28:4; Josh 19:18; Judg 6:33; 1Kgs 18:45-46, 1Kgs 21:1, 1Kgs 21:23; 2Kgs 9:36; Hos 1:4-11


2
the lords 1Sam 29:6-7, 1Sam 5:8-11, 1Sam 6:4; Josh 13:3

but David 1Sam 28:1-2


3
Is not this David These words seem to mark no definite time; and may be understood thus: "Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me for a considerable time?"

these days 1Sam 27:7

found 1Sam 25:28; Dan 6:5; John 19:6; Rom 12:17; 1Pet 3:16


4
Make this fellow The princes reasoned wisely, according to the common practice of mankind; and it was well for David that they were such good politicians. It was ordered by a gracious Providence that they refused to let David go with them to this battle, in which he must have been either an enemy to his country, or false to his friends and to his trust. Had he fought for the Philistines, he would have fought against God and his country; and had he in the battle gone over to the Israelites, he would have deceived and become a traitor to the hospitable Achish. God therefore delivered him from such disgrace; and by the same kind Providence he was sent back to rescue his wives, and the wives and children of his people, from captivity. 1Sam 14:21; 1Chr 12:19; Luke 16:8


5
1Sam 18:6-7, 1Sam 21:11; Prov 27:14


6
the Lord 1Sam 20:3, 1Sam 28:10; Deut 10:20; Isa 65:16; Jer 12:16

thou hast Matt 5:16; 1Pet 2:12, 1Pet 3:16

thy going Num 27:17; 2Sam 3:25; 2Kgs 19:27; Ps 121:8

I have not 1Sam 29:3

the lords favour etc. Heb. thou art not good in the eyes of the lords, Gen 16:6; Josh 22:30 *marg.


7
displease Heb. do not evil in the eyes of the lords, Num 22:34


8
But what have 1Sam 12:3, 1Sam 17:29, 1Sam 20:8, 1Sam 26:18

with Heb. before

that I may not 1Sam 28:2; 2Sam 16:18-19; Ps 34:13-14; Matt 6:13


9
as an angel 2Sam 14:17, 2Sam 14:20, 2Sam 19:27; Gal 4:14

the princes 1Sam 29:4


10
1Sam 30:1-2; Gen 22:14; Ps 37:23-24; 1Cor 10:13; 2Pet 2:9


11
And the Philistines 1Sam 29:1; Josh 19:18; 2Sam 4:4

Jezreel Jezreel, or Esdrelon, was a city of Issachar, afterwards celebrated as the residence of the kings of Israel, delightfully situated in the extensive and fertile plain of the same name, which extends from Scythopolis or Bethshan on the east to mount Carmel on the west. Eusebius and Jerome inform us, that it was in their time a place of considerable consequence, lying between Scythopolis on the east and Legio on the west; and the latter (on Hos 1:1-11). informs us that it was pretty near Maximianopolis. The Jerusalem Itinerary places it ten miles west from Scythopolis; and William of Tyre says it was called Little Gerinum in his time, and that there was a fine fountain in it, whose waters fell into the Jordan near Scythopolis. See note on 1Sam 29:1.


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