David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come out to you, until I know what God will do for me.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 3. Of Moab, to distinguish it from the city of Benjamin, where Samuel had assembled the people; ( Menochius.) and perhaps also from the birth-place of Jephte, unless the Moabites had taken possession again of that part of Galaad. Calmet.—Saul had made war upon this king, so that he was more ready to protect David, who departing soon after, by the admonition of Gad, (verse 5. Calmet.) left those who could not follow him under his care. In the mean time he lived on plunder, taken from the surrounding enemies, (Tostat) and was joined by 200 men from the tribes of Benjamin and of Juda, (1 Chronicles 12:16,) with Amasai, his nephew, by his sister Abigail, at their head. Salien, A.Calmet. 1079.