1st Samuel Chapter 29 verse 2 Holy Bible
And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.
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And the lords of the Philistines went on with their hundreds and their thousands, and David and his men came after with Achish.
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And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.
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And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.
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And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish.
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The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.
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and the princes of the Philistines are passing on by hundreds, and by thousands, and David and his men are passing on in the rear with Achish.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 2, 3. - The lords of the Philistines passed on. Evidently they were on their march northward, with their troops arranged in divisions, when David's presence in the rearward with the contingent of Achish was noticed. The princes - not the strict word for the Philistine lords (see on 1 Samuel 5:8), but a loose, general term used again in ver. 4 - on having it reported to them in the course of a day or two that there was a body of strange troops in the army of Gath, asked, What do these Hebrews here? Hebrew, "What these Hebrews?" i.e. What mean these Hebrews? using of them the ordinary Philistine term of contempt. Achish answers that these men were the followers of David, who, having deserted from Saul, had been with him these days or these years, i.e. an indefinitely long time, during which he had conducted himself with the utmost fidelity to his new master.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands.--The orderly advance of this great military nation is thus described. The "lords" a different term to the expression "princes." There were apparently in the Philistine federation five sovereign princes, of whom Achish of Gath was one. Beneath these were other chieftains, who seemingly had great control over the sovereign princes.David and his men.--David, in return for the lands round Ziklag given him by the King of Gath, seems to have owed a kind of military service to his suzerain Achish. The difference in the arms and equipment of the Israelitish warriors in the division of David, which was marching under the standard of Gath, no doubt excited questions. The general appearance of the Hebrews was, of course, well known to their hereditary Philistine foes.
