John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;" — Psalms 104:2 (ASV)
And David came to Saul, and stood before him
As a servant, and ministered to him in the way, and for the purpose for which he was sent:
and he loved him greatly ;
being a comely person, and a well behaved youth, and especially as he was serviceable to him with his music, in driving away melancholy from him:
and he became his armourbearer ; that is, he appointed him to this office, though we never read that he exercised it; nor did he go with Saul in this capacity to the battle related in the following chapter. It may be literally rendered: "and he was to him a bearer of vessels", or "instruments" F17 ; and Abarbinel thinks this is to be understood not of instruments of war, but of instruments of music to play with; which he brought in and bore before him when he went in to the king.