See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
The Ziphites betray David without being asked, without reward, seeking only to flatter Saul, a dark mirror to their own tribe's ornament fleeing for his life. Their treachery springs from base ambition, and Saul's gratitude reveals a heart where envy has made him miserable and dependent on the cruelty of others.
AI summary
Commenting on 1 Samuel 23:19-29
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself,.... Which he most frequents, that ye may be able to describe them, and the way to them, and easily find them when necessary: and come ye again to me with the certainty; of time and place, when and where he may be certainly found: and I will go with you; upon...
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah. (h) In your country of Ziph, which is in Judah.