14And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah. …
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-18)Here is, I. David absconding. He abode in a wilderness, in a mountain (1 Sam. 23:14), in a wood , 1 Sam. 23:15. We must here, 1. Commend his eminent virtues, his humility, modesty, fidelity to his prince, and patient attendance on the providence of his God, that he did not draw up his forces against Saul, fight him in the field, or surprise him by some stratagem or other, and so avenge his own qua…
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