afraid. Hebrew Greek ' apprehensive. Compare 1 Samuel 18:15.
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
and was departed. Ch. 1 Samuel 16:14-23 comes in here, chronologically. It is placed after 1 Samuel 16:1-13 by Figure of speech Hysterologia (App-6) in order to lay bare to us the secret workings underneath the history. See notes on 1 Samuel 16:14; 1 Samuel 17:1.