1Sa 22:1, 23:15, 19, 23, 24:1-3, 26:1, 1Ki 17:3, 18:4, 13, 19:9 | TSK | STEP | Companies resort unto David at Adullam. At Mizpeh he commends his parents unto the king of Moab. Admonished by Gad, he comes to Hareth. Saul going to pursue him, complains of his servants' unfaithfulness. Doeg accuses Ahimelech. Saul commands to kill the priests. The footmen refusing, Doeg executes it. Abiathar escaping, brings David the news. David. the cave. Adullam.Adullam was a city of Judah; and, according to Eusebius, ten miles (Jerome says eleven) eastward from Eleutheropolis.

Hachilah.Calmet states, that Hachilah was a mountain about ten miles south of Jericho, where Jonathan Maccabæus built the castle of Massada, west of the Dead Sea, and not far from En-gedi.

26:1,3

on the south. Heb. on the right hand. Jeshimon. or, thewilderness. Eusebius places Jeshimon ten miles south of Jericho, near the Dead Sea; which agrees extremely well with the position of Hachilah, as stated by Calmet.

1 Samuel 23:23

take knowledge.

Mr 14:1,10,11; Joh 18:2,3

I will search.

2Sa 17:11-13; 1Ki 18:10; Pr 1:16; Ro 3:15,16

the thousands.

Nu 10:36; Mic 5:2

1 Samuel 24:1-3

1 David, in a cave at En-gedi, having cut off Saul's skirt, spares his life.

8 He shews thereby his innocency.

16 Saul, acknowledging his fault, takes an oath of David, and departs.

when Saul.

23:28,29

following. Heb. after. it was told.

23:19; Pr 25:5; 29:12; Eze 22:9; Ho 7:3

the wilderness.

23:29

Saul took.

13:2

and went.

Ps 37:32; 38:12

the rocks.

Ps 104:18; 141:6

the sheepcotes.Caves in the rocks, in which it is still common for shepherds and their flocks to lodge. Dr. Pococke observes, "Beyond the valley [of Tekoa,] there is a very large grotto, which the Arabs call El-Maamah, a hiding place: the high rocks on each side of the valley are almost perpendicular; and the way to the grotto is by a terrace formed in the rock, which is very narrow. There are two entrances into it; we went by the farthest, which leads by a narrow passage into a very large grotto, the rock being supported by natural pillars; the top of it rises in several places like domes; the grotto is perfectly dry. There is a tradition, that the people of the country, to the number of 30,000, retired into this grotto, to avoid a bad air. This place is so strong, that one would imagine it to be one of the strong holds of En-gedi, to which David and his men fled from Saul: and possibly it may be that very cave in which he cut off Saul's skirt; for David and his men might, with good ease, lie hid there and not be seen by him." Travels, vol. ii. P. 1. p. 41.

and Saul.

Ps 141:6

to cover.

Jud 3:24

David.

Ps 57:1; 142:1; *titles