Then Achish said to his servants, “Behold, you see the man is mad. Why then have you brought him to me?
God's promises and His providences often seem to pull in opposite directions, yet this trial of faith is itself how He accomplishes His counsel. David, anointed king, now wanders homeless among Philistines; Israel's darling rejected by his own king, yet sheltered by his nation's enemy. Strange mercy comes often from unexpected hands.
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Commenting on 1 Samuel 21:10-15
Then said Achish to his servants, lo, you see the man is mad,.... Which he said, as willing his servants should think so, and therefore rather the object of their pity than of their rage and malice; or as really believing he was so, which he and they might conclude not merely from these his actions, before described, which they might judge real and not...
Achish, convinced David was mad, refused to house him. Whether he was expelled, departed himself, or hurried away by servants matters little to the main story; all we need know is that David escaped to Adullam. The narrative holds to what serves the account, not every detail of flight.
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Commenting on 1 Samuel 21:14-15