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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comTreasury Of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Samuel 21:10 - 21:10
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fled: 1Sa 27:1; 1Ki 19:3; Jer 26:21
Achish: or, Abimelech, 1Sa 27:2; Psa 34:1 *title
Gath: Jerome says there was a large town called Gath, in the way from Eleutheropolis to Gaza; and Eusebius speaks of another Gath, five miles from Eleutheropolis, towards Lydda (and consequently different from that mentioned by Jerome); and also of another Gath, between Jamnia and Antipatris. It appears to have been the extreme boundary of the Philistine territory in one direction, as Ekron was on the other (1Sa 7:14; 1Sa 17:52), and lay near Mareshah (2Ch 11:8. Mic 1:14), which agrees pretty well with the position assigned it by Jerome. But Reland and Dr. Wells agree with Eusebius; and the authors of the Universal History (b. i. c. 7) place it about six miles form Jamnia, fourteen south of Joppa, and thirty-two west of Jerusalem.