-others. For though for a ſealon whileſt it is to ſtand before the Lord, it be ſo Holy, that the Prieſt- himſelf mighr nor cart it; yer
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If it were bur newly put into the Veſle}, 1t- muſt give place to. Hr great Law of Neceiſiy, and Charity ; becauſe God will have |
rather becauſe thes day there is other ( 7. e. new Bread ) jan@ifed 7; th: viſcel; 7. e put into the Veſſel which was made to receive this
Bread, Exod. 25. 29. and thereby SanGified, or Conſecrated to God:
and therefore the former Shew-bread 15 now to be removed, andem-
ployed for the common uſe of the Prieſt and his Family.
6 Sothe prieſt * gave him hallowed bread, for there x jy; was no bread there p, but the ſhew-bread that was ta- 2. 26, ken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the 9 day when ie was taken away 9g. EP
p Towit, in the Tabernacle, where David and the Prieſt now were. q Which was done upon the Sabbath-day, Levzz. 24. 8. For though they might nor then kindle a Fire ro heat the Bread in, yer they might, and did keep it hotin an Oven that had been heated be-
a. fore the Sabbath.
7 ( Now acertain man of the ſervants of Saul was there that day detained 7 before the LORD s, and his name was * Doegan Edomits tz the chiefeſt of the herd- men that belonged to Saul.
7 Not by force from others, but by hisown choice ; he fixed his abode there for thar day ; either becauſe ir was the Sabbath-day ; on which he might not proceed in his Journey, or other Buſinels : or for the diſcharge of ſeme Vow : or to beg diretionand help from God in ſome great Buſineſs. - 7, e. At the Tabernacle. 7 Either, r. By his Habiration. and Converſation among thoſe People for ſome conſiderable time, as, for the ſame reaſon Uriah is called the Hittite; and Obed-Edomn the Girtite : Or rather, 2. By his Birth, and Nation : but he was proſelited ro the Fewiſb Religion : or took It up for ſiniſter Ends, being 2dvanccd, as here we read, toa place of Truſt and Pr-:f:rment, poſſibly upon this occaſion.
$ 4 And David faid unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand ſpear or ſword ? for I have nei- ther brought my ſword, nor my weapons with me s, becauſe the kings bufineſs required haſte ».
u Theſe he left behind him, that he might wich leſs ſuſpicion re« move from placeto place, and hide himſelf from Saul and his Spies. x The Meſſage came to me, when I was unarmed, and the buſineſs
required-ſo great expedition that I could not go home to fetch my Weapons.
9 And the prieſt ſaid, The ſword of Goliah the Philiſtine, whom thou fleweſt in * the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapt in a cloth behind the ephod y: if thou wilt take that, take it, for here is none other fave that, here, And David ſaid, There is none like that z, give it me.
) 7. e. Behind that Holy place allotted for the keeping of the Sa- cred, or Prieſtly Garments ; all which are here comprehended un« der the Ephod ; which, as the chief of the kind, is put for all rhe reſt. Here it was Jaid up as .a Sacred Monument of Gods power and goodneſs, and that famous ViQory, related chap. 179. z Becauſe ic not only ſerved him for his uie, for, he was a ſtrong and tall Man, and one that could weild that Sword, as we ſaw, chap. 17,
but wasalſo a Pledge of Gods favour to him, and a great Encous« ragement to his Faith.
Io © And David aroſe, and fled that day for fear of __ = | »*
Saul, and went to * Achiſh the king of Gath a : ' & A ſtrange Aftion : but it muſt ke conſidered, 1. That Saul; Rage was 1o great and implacable, his Power alſo, and Diligence in bunting after him ſo great, that he deſpaired of eſcaping him any other way: and it is not ſtrange if a deſperate Diſeaſe, produ- ceth adeſperate Remedy. 2. David might reaſonably think, that being perlecuted, and baniſhed by Sal, and the Iſraelites under his Command, he ſhould be welcome to the Phili#ines ; who would be glad, not only to be freed from all thoſe Evils which he had from time to time done, and was likely further to doto them, but alſo to make him their Friend, and oblige him by their Kindneſs; and to make him the more odious and irreconcuable to Saul and the 7. raelites. Dueff. Bur why dic he go to theſe, and not rather toſome other nezghbour Nations? Arſw. Becauſe they were all at Peace with Saul;” and therefore would certainly have delivered him up upon Sauls Demands.
i: And the ſervants of Achiſh ſaid unto him, 1: not this David the king of the land 3? did they not ſing one to another of him in dances, ſaying, * Saul hath ſlain his thouſands, and David his ten thou- ſands c.
b Or, of this land; i.e. Of the Land of Canaan. They call him
*Plal. gs;
title,
* Chap
Pal. 344 ei3le.
* Chayy 18. 7+
King, either mote generally for the Goyernoux, as that word is
uſed, Deut. 33. 5. for the moſt eminent Captain and Commander, and, as it were the King of the I/raelitiſh Armies : or, rather more ſpecially, the King ; to wit, the King ele, the Perſon deſigned to be King : for, by this time, the Fame of Sauls Reje&tion, and Da- vids Deſtination to the Kipgdom, was got abroad among the 1a elites, and from.them, probably to the Phili#iner,Ears. c And there- fore conſider what to do ; and now-thine, and our great Enemy iis ia thy hand, be ſure thou never let.him go alive.
12 And David laid up theſe words in hisheart, and was ſore afraid c of Achiſh the king of Gath: _ ...
c Leſt cither their Revenge or Policy ſhould prompt them to kill him. fn,
13 And * he changed-his behaviour 4 before them, s pg, 34 and feigned himſelf mad e in their hands f, and || ſcrab- ;;t1. = bled on the doors of the gate, and {kt his fpittle fall Or," down upon his beard. EEE ure:
4 His Speech and Geſture; ang jt may . Fe, his ;Habit alſo. e Which they might the more eaſily believe ; partly, becauſe pf the diſappointment of his great hopes, and bis extream dar ger and trouble from Saul, which might well make him mad : an partly,
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*Pſal. 57 title, and 142+ title
tHeb. h: acreditor, tHeb bi trr of ſoul.
beoauſe he had pur himſelf into their hands; which they ſuppoſed,
mercy preterred before Sacrifice, Or thus, Eſpecially, when, os, Tie
none but a Fool, or a mad Man would have done, | COUNTCrs
And David
* 2 Sam.
24. IIs
I Chron,
21, 9. 2 Chron,
29, 25,
*Pal. 57. title, and 142» title
Chap. X XI.