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22Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.

1 Samuel 23:22

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 19-29)

Here, 1. The Ziphites offer their service to Saul, to betray David to him, 1 Sam. 23:19 , 20 . He was sheltering himself in the wilderness of Ziph ( 1 Sam. 23:14 , 15 ), putting the more confidence in the people of that country because they were of his own tribe. They had reason to think themselves happy that they had an opportunity of serving one who was the ornament of their tribe and was likely…

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