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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Samuel 27:1 - 27:1
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1Sa 27:1-4. Saul hearing that David was fled to Gath, seeks no more for him.
David said in his heart, ... there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines - This resolution of David’s was, in every respect, wrong: (1) It was removing him from the place where the divine oracle intimated him to remain (1Sa 22:5); (2) It was rushing into the idolatrous land, for driving him into which he had denounced an imprecation on his enemies (1Sa 26:19); (3) It was a withdrawal of his counsel and aid from God’s people. It was a movement, however, overruled by Providence to detach him from his country and to let the disasters impending over Saul and his followers be brought on by the Philistines.