Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” And the LORD said, “They will surrender you.”
Saul hears David has relieved Keilah from the Philistines and makes it an occasion for murder instead of honor, an ungrateful wretch who rewarded good with evil. He blasphemes by dragging God's name into his malice, as if Providence blessed his wickedness, and conscripts all Israel to serve his spite.
AI summary
Commenting on 1 Samuel 23:7-13
Then said David, will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?.... That is, the lords and great men of the place, the governor of the city, and the heads of it, the chief magistrates in it: and the Lord said, they will deliver thee up: that is, provided he stayed there; for the Lord knew the dispositions and...
The word here means rejection, not mere seeing: God has rejected him and delivered him into my hand. Saul grasps at this news as proof that David has trapped himself, unable to escape a walled city, yet blind to the theological truth his own words declare.
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Commenting on 1 Samuel 23:7-12