footmen. runners.
hand. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause) for the help given by it. App-6.
when he fled. that he was fleeing.
Related Commentaries of 1 Samuel 22:17
1 Samuel 22:17
17 And the king said unto the footmend that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.