1 Samuel 19:22
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What does 1 Samuel 19:22 mean?
Then went he also to Ramah
That is, Saul; his messengers not returning to him, when he sent
one after another to take David, at length he set out himself
from Gibeah to Ramah:
and came to a great well that [is] in Sechu;
which was either the name of a man, the owner of the well, or a
place near to which the well was, and is commonly thought to be
the same with Shochoh, ( 1 Samuel
17:1 ) ; at such places there was generally a concourse of
people at certain times, to fetch water for the inhabitants of
the place, and for the watering of flocks and herds, and so a
proper place to stop at, and ask the following questions:
and he asked and said, where [are] Samuel and
David?
for his messengers not returning to him, he could not be sure
where they now were, though he had heard they were at Naioth:
and [one] said, behold, [they be] at Naioth in
Ramah;
at the house of doctrine, or school in Ramah, as the Targum; thus
one at the well replied, in answer to his question, who had seen
them go there, or knew they were there.
