John Gill Commentary 1 Samuel 29:7

"Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines." — 1 Samuel 29:7 (ASV)

Wherefore now return
To Ziklag:

and go in peace ;
not only in a peaceable manner, easy and satisfied, as David was at his very heart to hear this, but all prosperity and happiness attend you; the Jews ^F14 distinguish between wishing persons to go in peace, and to go to peace; the former they observe has not issued happily, when the other has, and they instance in the wish of Jethro to Moses, and of David to Absalom;

that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines :
and what would be the consequence of that he could not say, but suggests it would be most for his peace and safety to depart.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F14: T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 64. 1. Sepher Alphes, par. 1. fol. 421. 2.