
Text -- 1 Samuel 22:21-23 (NET)




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JFB -> 1Sa 22:20-23
JFB: 1Sa 22:20-23 - -- This was Abiathar, who repaired to David in the forest of Hareth, rescuing, with his own life, the high priest's vestments (1Sa 23:6, 1Sa 23:9). On he...
This was Abiathar, who repaired to David in the forest of Hareth, rescuing, with his own life, the high priest's vestments (1Sa 23:6, 1Sa 23:9). On hearing his sad tale, David declared that he had dreaded such a fatal result from the malice and intriguing ambition of Doeg; and, accusing himself as having been the occasion of all the disaster to Abiathar's family, David invited him to remain, because, firmly trusting himself in the accomplishment of the divine promise, David could guarantee protection to him.
Clarke: 1Sa 22:22 - -- I knew it that day - When I saw Doeg there, I suspected he would make the matter known to Saul
I knew it that day - When I saw Doeg there, I suspected he would make the matter known to Saul

Clarke: 1Sa 22:22 - -- I have occasioned the death of all the persons - I have been the innocent cause of their destruction.
I have occasioned the death of all the persons - I have been the innocent cause of their destruction.

Clarke: 1Sa 22:23 - -- He that seeketh my life seeketh thy life - The enmity of Saul is directed against thee as well as against me, and thou canst have no safety but in b...
He that seeketh my life seeketh thy life - The enmity of Saul is directed against thee as well as against me, and thou canst have no safety but in being closely attached to me; and I will defend thee even at the risk of my own life. This he was bound in duty and conscience to do.
Defender -> 1Sa 22:21
Defender: 1Sa 22:21 - -- Saul continues to compound his sin, begun so innocuously by acting as a priest (1Sa 13:9), by now murdering an entire city of priests (1Sa 22:19). How...
I have occasioned : 1Sa 21:1-9; Psa 44:22

TSK: 1Sa 22:23 - -- he that seeketh : 1Ki 2:26; Mat 24:9; Joh 15:20, Joh 16:2, Joh 16:3; Heb 12:1-3
but with me : Joh 10:28-30, Joh 17:12, Joh 18:9
he that seeketh : 1Ki 2:26; Mat 24:9; Joh 15:20, Joh 16:2, Joh 16:3; Heb 12:1-3
but with me : Joh 10:28-30, Joh 17:12, Joh 18:9

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Barnes -> 1Sa 22:23
Barnes: 1Sa 22:23 - -- The characteristic generosity of David’ s disposition breaks out in these words. He never forgot a friend. (Compare 2Sa 1:26; 2Sa 9:1, etc.) Da...
I knew it his malice and ambition made me suspect that he would do it.

Poole: 1Sa 22:23 - -- Because God will certainly preserve me to the kingdom which he hath promised; and I by his help will protect thee.
Because God will certainly preserve me to the kingdom which he hath promised; and I by his help will protect thee.
Haydock: 1Sa 22:22 - -- House. Literally, "I am guilty," &c. (Haydock) ---
"Good people acknowledge a fault, where there is none." (St. Gregory) ---
David was aware of ...
House. Literally, "I am guilty," &c. (Haydock) ---
"Good people acknowledge a fault, where there is none." (St. Gregory) ---
David was aware of the malicious temper of Doeg, but he could not prevent its evil effects, as he had applied to the high priest without perceiving that he was there. (Haydock) ---
He received Abiathar at Ceila, which he had protected against the Philistines, chap. xxii.

Haydock: 1Sa 22:23 - -- Saved. We will be as one soul. On this occasion David composed the 51st Psalm, Quid gloriaris, to reprobate the conduct of Doeg. (Salien) ---
W...
Saved. We will be as one soul. On this occasion David composed the 51st Psalm, Quid gloriaris, to reprobate the conduct of Doeg. (Salien) ---
We may consider David as the fourth in order of the sacred writers, as he appears after Moses, Josue, and Samuel. (Haydock)
Gill: 1Sa 22:21 - -- And Abiathar showed David that Saul had slain the Lord's priests. Of which perhaps he had not as yet heard; though tidings of such a nature generally ...
And Abiathar showed David that Saul had slain the Lord's priests. Of which perhaps he had not as yet heard; though tidings of such a nature generally fly swiftly; and a sorrowful shocking account he had to give, and which was so to David.

Gill: 1Sa 22:22 - -- And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day,.... That is, he thought in his mind at that time:
when Doeg the Edomite was there; at Nob; in t...
And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day,.... That is, he thought in his mind at that time:
when Doeg the Edomite was there; at Nob; in the tabernacle, at the same time that David was there:
that he would surely tell Saul; that he saw David there, and what passed between him and Ahimelech; he knew he was a spiteful mischievous man; that he was a true Edomite, though a proselyte, and bore hatred and enmity in his mind against an Israelite, and especially an Israelite indeed, as David was:
I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house: or have been the cause of all the evils that befell them, and the death they were put unto, not with design, but by accident; and it grieved him that he should be any ways an accessory thereunto, though without intention.

Gill: 1Sa 22:23 - -- Abide thou with me, fear not,.... He appeared to be in a fright; which is not to be wondered at, as not knowing what to do, and where to go and provid...
Abide thou with me, fear not,.... He appeared to be in a fright; which is not to be wondered at, as not knowing what to do, and where to go and provide for his safety; when, to allay his fears, and make him easy, David invites and encourages him to stay with him, and not be afraid of Saul, nor any other:
for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life; or, as Kimchi observes, it may be interpreted, "my life he seeks who seeks thy life"; we are in the same circumstances, and have the same common enemy, and therefore it is best and safest to be together; as the Targum,"he that seeks to kill me seeks to kill thee;''and as Jarchi adds, he that loves me will love thee, and he that keeps my life will keep thine:
but with me thou shalt be in safeguard; intimating, that he would be as careful of him as of himself; and that for this reason, as Ben Gersom suggests, because he brought the ephod with the Urim and Thummim with him, by which he could inquire of God for him; but this was the thing David was confident of, that God would preserve him, and raise him to the kingdom, and therefore Abiathar might be sure of safety with him: at this time he penned the fifty second psalm, which shows the frame of spirit he was now in; see Psa 52:1.

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TSK Synopsis -> 1Sa 22:1-23
TSK Synopsis: 1Sa 22:1-23 - --1 Companies resort unto David at Adullam.3 At Mizpeh he commends his parents unto the king of Moab.5 Admonished by Gad, he comes to Hareth.6 Saul goin...
MHCC -> 1Sa 22:20-23
MHCC: 1Sa 22:20-23 - --David greatly lamented the calamity. It is great trouble to a good man to find himself any way the cause of evil to others. He must have been much pai...
Matthew Henry -> 1Sa 22:20-23
Matthew Henry: 1Sa 22:20-23 - -- Here is, 1. The escape of Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, out of the desolations of the priests' city. Probably when his father went to appear, upon...
Keil-Delitzsch -> 1Sa 22:20-23
Keil-Delitzsch: 1Sa 22:20-23 - --
The only one of the whole body of priests who escaped this bloody deathwas a son of Ahimelech, named Abiathar, who "fled after David," i.e., toDavid...
Constable: 1Sa 16:1--31:13 - --IV. SAUL AND DAVID 1 Sam. 16--31
The basic theme in Samuel, that blessing, and in particular fertility of all ki...

Constable: 1Sa 21:1--30:31 - --C. David in Exile chs. 21-30
In chapters 21-30 we see David's forces growing stronger and stronger while...

Constable: 1Sa 21:1--22:23 - --1. David's initial movements chs. 21-22
"The two chapters comprise a literary unit of three sect...
