Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 29:3

3 Fēilìshì rén de shǒulǐng shuō , zhèxie Xībólái rén zaì zhèlǐ zuò shénme ne . yà jí duì tāmen shuō , zhè bú shì Yǐsèliè wáng Sǎoluó de chén zǐ Dàwèi ma . tā zaì wǒ zhèlǐ yǒu xiē nián rì le . zì cóng tā tóu jiàng wǒ zhídào jīnrì , wǒ wèicéng jiàn tā yǒu guō cuò .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 29:3 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 29:3

Then said the princes of the Philistines
To Achish; not those of the court of Achish, who were his subjects, but the confederate princes with him in this war, the lords of the other principalities, as appears by the freedom they took with him, ( 1 Samuel 29:4 ) ;

what [do] these Hebrews [here]?
or Jews, as the Targum; what hast thou to do with them, or they to be with thee? men of another nation and religion, and known enemies to the Philistines:

and Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines;
in order to soften them, and reconcile them to these men, and their being with him:

[is] not this David the servant of Saul the king of Israel;
between whom there had been a quarrel, and the former had fled from the latter to him:

which hath been with me these days, or these years;
had been with him many days, and he might say years, as he had been with him one whole year, and part of another, see ( 1 Samuel 27:7 ) ; and he might have known him longer, if he was the same Achish David first fled to; Kimchi interprets it, that he knew him as well as if he had been with him as many years as days:

and I have found no fault in him since he fell [unto me] unto this day?
the affair of David's going against the Geshurites not being yet known by him, or, if it was, he approved of it, they being enemies of his; this shows that David behaved with a great deal of prudence to have such a character as this from a king of the Philistines.

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 29:3 In-Context

1 Fēilìshì rén jiāng tāmende jūn lǚ jù dào Yàfú . Yǐsèliè rén zaì yé sī liè de quán páng ān yíng .

2 Fēilìshì rén de shǒulǐng gè lǜ jūnduì , huò bǎi huò qiā , ái cì qián jìn . Dàwèi hé gēnsuí tāde rén tóng zhe yà jí gēn zaì hòubiān .

3 Fēilìshì rén de shǒulǐng shuō , zhèxie Xībólái rén zaì zhèlǐ zuò shénme ne . yà jí duì tāmen shuō , zhè bú shì Yǐsèliè wáng Sǎoluó de chén zǐ Dàwèi ma . tā zaì wǒ zhèlǐ yǒu xiē nián rì le . zì cóng tā tóu jiàng wǒ zhídào jīnrì , wǒ wèicéng jiàn tā yǒu guō cuò .

4 Fēilìshì rén de shǒulǐng xiàng yà jí fānù , duì tā shuō , nǐ yào jiào zhè rén huí nǐ suǒ ānzhì tāde dìfang , bùkĕ jiào tā tóng wǒmen chū zhàn , kǒngpà tā zaì zhèn shàng fǎn wèi wǒmen de dírén . tā yòng shénme yǔ tā zhǔrén fù hé ne . qǐbù shì yòng wǒmen zhèxie rén de shǒu jí ma

5 Cóng qián Yǐsèliè de fùnǚ tiàowǔ chàng hé shuō , Sǎoluó shā sǐ qiā qiā , Dàwèi shā sǐ wàn wàn , suǒ shuō de bú shì zhège Dàwèi ma .