Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Samuel 29:7
Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
Wherefore now return,…. To Ziklag:
and go in peace; not only in a peaceable manner, easy and satisfied, as David was at his very heart to hear this, but all prosperity and happiness attend thee; the Jews n distinguish between wishing persons to go in peace, and to go to peace; the former they observe has not issued happily, when the other has, and they instance in the wish of Jethro to Moses, and of David to Absalom;
that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines: and what would be the consequence of that he could not say, but suggests it would be most for his peace and safety to depart.
n T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 64. 1. Sepher Alphes, par. 1. fol. 421. 2.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
1Sa 29:7 Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
Ver. 7. Wherefore now return, and go in peace. ] Happy for David to be thus opportunely cashiered, when he was, as it were, inter saccum et saxum, in a great doubt what to do, and how to come off with comfort. They that trust in God shall never be confounded. If David had not been thus dismissed, what would have become of poor Ziklag, much about this time sacked by the Amalekites?
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
displease: Heb. do not evil in the eyes of the lords, Num 22:34
Reciprocal: 1Sa 1:17 – Go 1Sa 29:2 – the lords Act 16:36 – and go