liver me .and my wen into the hand of Saul ? and the ſpur up
EORD ſaid, They will deliver thee up r.
t Towir. ifthcuabideſt there. For Gcd iaw their hearts their
purpcfſes, and paſſions, and their averſion from David, and their af.
fetions to Saul, and knew better than themſelves what they would
12 C Then David and his men, which were about ſx hundred #, aroſe, and departed out of Keilah, and went whitherſoever they could go x: and it was told Saul that David was eſcaped from Keilah, and he for-
| bare to go forth.
u Two hundred being added to his former number, chap. 22 20 upon his laſt and great Succeſs againſt the Phil:Fines. x Hither or thicher, where they ceuld find refuge, or an hiding place.
14 And David abode in the wilderneſs in ſtron holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderneſs of Ziph : and Saul ſought him every day, but God dey livered him not into his hand y. :
3 As Saul fondly perſwaded himſelf, he intended, wv. 7.
15 And David faw & that Saul was come out to ſeek his = : and David was in the wilderneſs of Ziphin a wood.
z Either by Information from his Spies : or, by proſpe@& from
16 © And Jonathan Sauls ſon aroſe, and went to
David in the wood a, and ſtrengthened his hand in
God b,
a Where David had appointed to meet him at that time. 5 He comforted and ſupported, him againſt all his fears, by minding him of Gods infallible promiſes made to him, and his ſirgular Providence which hitherto had and ſtill wou'id be with him,
17 And he faidunto him, Fear not, for the hand of Saul my father ſhall not find thee, and thou ſhalt be king over Iſrael, and I ſhall be next unto thee: *,* and * that alſo Sol my father knoweth
” ich he gathered either from Davids Generoſit , Ingenvity and true Friendſhip to him; or from ſome — to th by David concerning it. Or, the meaning of the words next wnra thee, may beas much as to ſay, I ſhall be under thee, afrer thee, or inferior to thee, as the Phraſe tibi ſecundus oft ſignifies So that the whole imports thus much ; I do not look to be King my ſelf, ( as by my Birth T migh expe&, ) but that thou ſhalt be Kings ( God having ſo appointed ) and I but in a Secondary place jnferi- or — ——_ c Byſtrong and well-grounded Conje&ures as bath been no e .
18 And they two made a covenant d befo
re the LORD e: and David abode in
than went to his houſe. | a +» & Renewced their former Covenant, e & e, Setting thems.
their ArmY- |
ſely vs
* Chap. 24+ 2%
the wood, and Joma- |
q
Chap-
* Pal. 5: title.
4 Heb. on the 11S han.
|Or, FE wilgerne/
{ Heb: frrend
themſel wp0n, &
[That the rock diviſen,
F ctup.
* Pal. 54+ title.
4 Heb. on the 1159” han. :
[| Or, Fe wilgerneſ*-
+ ile
, '7 fat ſpall 05» /
{ Heb: ſpread themſelves upon, &C+
the rock of diviſens,
f Heb;
aſter,
F!Jeb; the faco
of, &c.
Y XIV.
A
LW ſzlves as in Cod's preſence, and calling upon him to be witned, be- |
tween them, +8 the * Ziphites f to Saul to G1-
19 { Then came up Ziphites f to Saul ] th not David hide himſelf with us 1n mn Bre re Sree in the hill of Hachilah,
ſtrong holds in the woods, 1n .
which # + on the ſouth of [|Jeſhimon 7 f Who were of Davids own Tribe, though fer this their unnatura
and ſtrange carriage to him, he calls them ſ{rangers, Pſal 54-3:
20 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the deſire of thy ſoul to come down, and our part ſhall be g to deliver him into the kings hand-
£ It ſhall be our Care and Buſineſs to mn —_— of wy ag Or, we will undertake to deliver him, or betray hum © thee.
2x And Saul faid, Bleſſed be ye of the LORD, for ve have compaſiion on me h. : : = " þ Whilſt others harden their Hearts againſt me, and joyn mA Devid in his treaſonable Conſpiracy. you ſhew ycur pity to Me BY your readineſs to help me. | " 22 Go, I pray you, prepare yet 5, and know, and
ſee his place where his + haunt is &, and who hath _— him there : for it is told me that he dealeth very lub- cilly. :
r F wit, the matter, inform your ſelves certainly of things, a diſpoſe them ſo that we may not be fruſtrared in our Attempr. & 1n what Cave, or Wood, or Mountain he is moſt frequent)y.
23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the Jurking places where he hideth himſelf, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it ſhall come to paſs, if he be in the land, that 1 will ſearch him out throughout all the thouſands of Ju- dah I. E 1;
1 i. e- Through all the parts of that T'ribe. Every Tribe was dt- vided into Thouſands, as Counties are now with us intc Hundreds, Sce Jr. 6. 15. Or, with all the Thouſands of Judah ; 1. &- I will raiſe againſt him all tre Forces of that Tribe in which he truſteth and hid-th bimſe]f. This he ſaith to animate them to the more Vi- gorous Proſecution of bums
24 And they aroſe, and went to Ziph before Saul m: but David and his men were in the wilderheſs of Ma- on z, in the plain on the ſouth ot Jeſhimon. ;
» To prepare things for Saul, who marched after chem. » Whi-
ther be went from the wilderneſs of Ziph, upon ſuſpicion or infor= mation that Sau! was coming thither.
25 Saul alſo and his men went to ſeek him, and they told David : wherefore he came downinto a rock 6, and abode in the wiiderneſs of Maon : and when Saul heard zhat, he purſued after David in the wilderneſs of Maon. SE
0 i, e. Into a Cave which was in the Rock; or, which might be called a Rock, not fer the height, but the ſtrength ef its ſituation : where at firſt he might think to hide himſelf, bur upon further in- tilligence or conſiderati:n he removed from thence upon Sauls ap- proach. Or, he came down from. iheRock, 1. e- Either, Firſt, from the Mountain menricned in the next Verſe, whence he camedown, that ſo he might ger out of Sauls {igit and reach, Or, Secondly, From the Hill of Hachilah, wheres David hid himſelf, which is ſaid to be on the Seth of Jeſh:mon, v. 9g. as this place where he now was, is alſo deſcribed, wer. 24. only rhat ſpeaks of the Plain, and this of the Rock or Hill adjoyning to it, or in the midſt of it- Or, he came down ts Selah, as the Syriack and Arabick tranſlate it ; a place ſo called from the many Rocks or Stones which were in it, or near It.
26 And Saul went on this ſide of the mountain, and David and his men on that ſide of the mountain: and David made haſte to get away for fear of Saul: forSaul and his men compailed David and his men round about p to'take them, LS]
p Dividing themſelves inte ſeveral Parties, each marching a ſe- veral way after him.