Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
Ver. 10. O Lord God of Israel.] He runneth to the Rock of Ages for help in this distress, as was his constant course when hardly bestead.
To destroy the city for my sake.] So in the holy war, as they called it, against the Waldenses in France, the Pope's great army took one great populous city, and put to the sword sixty thousand: among whom were many of their own Catholics. a
a Caesar Heistorbachensis, Hist., lib. v. cap. 21.