Abide Achish A'chish Assigned Cities Country-town David Dwell Favor Favour Field Grace King's Living-place Royal Servant Sight Smaller Town Towns Yea
27:5 And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, {c} let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?
(c) Let your officers appoint me a place.
27:5 Give me a place - A prudent desire. Hereby David designed to preserve his people, both from the vices, which conversation with the Philistines would have exposed them to; and from that envy, and malice, which diversity of religion might have caused. With thee - Which is too great an honour for me, and too burdensome to thee, and may be an occasion of offence to thy people.
27:1-7 Unbelief is a sin that easily besets even good men, when without are fightings, and within are fears; and it is a hard matter to get over them. Lord, increase our faith! We may blush to think that the word of a Philistine should go further than the word of an Israelite, and that the city of Gath should be a place of refuge for a good man, when the cities of Israel refuse him a safe abode. David gained a comfortable settlement, not only at a distance from Gath, but bordering upon Israel, where he might keep up a correspondence with his own countrymen.
Abide Achish Assigned Cities City Country David Dwell Eyes Live Right Royal Servant Sight Smaller
Abide Achish Assigned Cities City Country David Dwell Eyes Live Right Royal Servant Sight Smaller
