Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
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.
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Commenting on 1 Samuel 23:7-13
Then said David,.... By the priest, for it was he that put the questions for and in the name of the inquirer: O Lord God of Israel; the great Jehovah, the covenant God of his people, who always has a merciful regard unto them: thy servant hath certainly heard; had good information of it, on which he could depend: that Saul seeketh to come to...
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