By God. —The oath was to be by “Elohim,” not by Jehovah, of whom the Egyptian knew nothing.

And I will…

So David went, he and the his hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed. But David …

And David said to him, can you me down to this company ?
&c.] That is, show him, or direct him where they were:

If in all our ways, even when, as in this case, there can be no doubt they are just, we acknowledge God, we may expect that He will direct our step…