David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard [it], they went down thither to him.
Ver. 1. David therefore departed thence.] Full glad he was so fairly delivered; and got to a place where he might, to the glory of God, his Sospitator, compose that most elegant and excellent thirty-fourth Psalm.
And escaped to the cave of Adullam.] Which was in the tribe of Judah, saith Lyra: a a place fortified by nature, saith Adrichomius, insomuch as that the Christians do there still shelter and secure themselves, - namely, from the force and spoil of the Turks that come to plunder and rob them.
And when his brethren, &c.] Who had, it is likely, suffered for his sake, by Saul's cruelty. Christ's friends shall be sure to be hated of all men, Matthew 10:22 Joh 15:19-21 and to suffer many things for the name of Jesus: they must be conformed unto him in sufferings, that he may be the firstborn among many brethren. Rom 8:29
They went down thither to him.] For mutual comfort, as Romans 1:11,12 .
a In trib. Jud., Num 201. In this country dwelt that hangby Hiram, Judah's friend, or rather broker. - Gen. xxxviii.