David Returns To Achish By J James Tissot Illustration To Book Of 2. (1 samuel 27:2 4) david goes over to achish, leader of gath. then david arose and went over with the six hundred men who were with him to achish the son of maoch, king of gath. so david dwelt with achish at gath, he and his men, each man with his household, and david with his two wives, ahinoam the jezreelitess, and abigail the carmelitess. We see in 1 samuel 27:1–4 that david decided the best way to escape saul was to flee to philistine territory and take up residence in the city of gath. david had been there before, and he deceived the city’s king, achish, by pretending to be insane, thereby keeping the philistines from killing him (21:10–15).
Achish Alchetron The Free Social Encyclopedia 2. (2 4) david goes over to achish, leader of gath. then david arose and went over with the six hundred men who were with him to achish the son of maoch, king of gath. so david dwelt with achish at gath, he and his men, each man with his household, and david with his two wives, ahinoam the jezreelitess, and abigail the carmelitess, nabal’s. As 1 samuel 27 opens, we see an example of one who was instrumental in god's hands apparently at a point of weakness in his faith and perhaps fallen into depression. as is clear from other biblical examples, such as elijah (1 kings 19:4) and jonah (jonah 4:3), servants of god sometimes suffered terrible depression. with evidence to the contrary. Verse 8:[1] and david and his men went up, and invaded (josh. 13:12) the geshurites, (josh. 16:10; judg. 1:29) and the gezrites (or, gerzites[2]), and the (ex. 17:16; see 1 sam. 15:7, 8) amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, (gen. 25:18) as thou goest to shur, even unto the land of egypt.[they were pillaging geshur] the geshurites were the remains of the. 1 samuel 27:1 david distrusteth god’s protection, and therefore fleeth unto the idolaters, who were enemies to god’s people. 1 samuel 27:3 thus god by his providence changeth the enemy’s hearts, and maketh them to favor his in their necessity. 1 samuel 27:5 let thine officers appoint me a place. 1 samuel 27:7 hebrew, the number of the days.
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