Gath was the royal city of Achish (1 Samuel 21:10; 1 Samuel 27:2). Ashkelon was the chief seat of worship (see the note on …

In Gath ... in the streets of Askelon. — Two chief cities of the Philistines, poetically put for the whole. In the former David ha…

Tell [it] not in Gath
One of the five principalities of the Philistines, and the chief of them, being raised to a ki…

Kasheth, or “the bow,” probably was the title of this mournful, funeral song. David does not commend Saul for what he was not, and says nothing of …