Partly in gratitude for their former favour to him; and partly in policy to engage their affections to him now when he apprehended Saul's death near. The enemies of the Lord; he intimates, that though he was fled to the Philistines, yet he employed not his forces against the Israelites, as, no doubt, Saul's courtiers and soldiers reported that he designed; but only against God's enemies.
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1 Samuel 30:26
26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a presente for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;