Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.”
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Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.”
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Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
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Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.'
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Passages linked to 1 Samuel 29:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 22:34 Balaam said to Yahweh’s angel, “I have sinned; for I didn’t know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 29:7 Wherefore now return, and go in peace,…
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?
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Wherefore now return,.... To Ziklag:
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:
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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.
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