He fell to me - The regular word for deserting and going over to the other side. See Jeremiah 37:13; Jeremiah 38:19.

These days, or these years. —An indefinite expression of time. The versions have translated it in various ways. The English Versio…

Then said the princes of the Philistines
To Achish; not those of the court of Achish, who were his subjects, but the…

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…