1Sa 29:4, 9, 1Ki 12:8-11 | TSK | STEP | Make this fellow.The princes reasoned wisely, according to the common practice of mankind; and it was well for David that they were such good politicians: it was ordered by a gracious Providence that they refused to let David go with them to this battle, in which he must have been either an enemy to his country, or false to his friends and to his trust. Had he fought for the Philistines, he would have fought against God and his country; and had he in the battle gone over to the Israelites, he would have deceived and become a traitor to the hospitable Achish. God therefore delivered him from such disgrace; and by the same kind Providence he was sent back to rescue his wives, and the wives and children of his people, from captivity.

1 Samuel 29:4

Make this fellow.The princes reasoned wisely, according to the common practice of mankind; and it was well for David that they were such good politicians: it was ordered by a gracious Providence that they refused to let David go with them to this battle, in which he must have been either an enemy to his country, or false to his friends and to his trust. Had he fought for the Philistines, he would have fought against God and his country; and had he in the battle gone over to the Israelites, he would have deceived and become a traitor to the hospitable Achish. God therefore delivered him from such disgrace; and by the same kind Providence he was sent back to rescue his wives, and the wives and children of his people, from captivity.

14:21; 1Ch 12:19; Lu 16:8

1 Samuel 29:9

as an angel.

2Sa 14:17,20; 19:27; Ga 4:14

the princes.

1 Kings 12:8-11

2Ch 10:8; 25:15,16; Pr 1:2-5,25,30; 19:20; 25:12; Ec 10:2,3

22:6-8; 2Sa 17:5,6; 2Ch 10:9; 18:5-7

Thus shalt thou.

2Sa 17:7-13

My little finger.A proverbial mode of expression: "My little finger is thicker than my father's thigh." As much as the thigh surpasses the little finger in thickness, so much does my power exceed that of my father; and the use I shall make of it to oppress and tax you shall be in proportion.

2Ch 10:10,11; Pr 10:14; 18:6,7; 28:25; 29:23; Isa 47:6

I will add.

Ex 1:13,14; 5:5-9,18; 1Sa 8:18; 2Ch 16:10; Isa 58:6; Jer 27:11

Jer 28:13,14

but I will chastise.Should you rebel or become disaffected, my father's whip shall be a scorpion in my hand. His was chastisement, mine shall be punishment. Celsius and Hiller conjecture that {âkrabbim} denotes a thorny kind of shrub, whose prickles are of a venomous nature, called by the Arabs scorpion thorns, from the exquisite pain which they inflict. But the Chaldee renders it {margenin,} and the Syriac {moragyai,} i.e., [maragnai,] scourges; and in the parallel place of Chronicles the Arabic has {saut,} a scourge. Isidore, and after him Calmet and others, assert that the scorpion was a sort of severe whip, the lashes of which were armed with knots or points that sunk into and tore the flesh.

scorpions.

14; Eze 2:6; Re 9:3-10