Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [do] these Hebrews [here]? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who hath been with me these days, or [rather] these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away [unto me] unto this day?
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He fell to me - The regular word for deserting and going over to the other side. See Jeremiah 37:13; Jeremiah 38:19.
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
These days, or these years. —An indefinite expression of time. The versions have translated it in various ways. The English Versio…
John Gill
JohnGill
Then said the princes of the Philistines
To Achish; not those of the court of Achish, who were his subjects, but the…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
David waited with a secret hope that the Lord would help him out of his difficulty. But he seems to have been influenced too much by the fear of ma…
Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes