Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 29:4

4 And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him , and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him , and let him not go down with us to battel, lest in the battel he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not be with the heads of these men ?

Were unsatisfied and offended with Achish for this intention and declaration.

Herein the Wi[illegible: 1+ letters]e and Gracious Providence of God appeared, both in helping him out of those snares and difficulties, out of which no human wit could have extricated him, but he must either have been, or have been thought to be a Traitor, and an ungrateful unworthy person either to the one or to the other side; and moreover in giving him the happy opportunity of recovering his own, and his All from the Amalekites, which had been irrecoverably lost, if he had gone into this Battel. And the kindness of God to David was the greater, because it had been [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1+ letters]ust for God to have left▪ David in all those Distresses into which his own sinful counsel and course had brought him.

i. e. Of these our Soldiers? They speak according to the rules of Reason and true Policy; for by this very course, great Enemies have sometimes been reconciled together.

Marginal references: 1 Chr. 12. 19.