And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.
Ver. 7. God hath delivered him into mine hands.] Thus this "hypocrite flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful," Psa 36:2 and although he standeth in a posture of distance and defiance against God, yet he talketh very confidently of him, as if on his side. So did Rabshakeh, and the Pharisees: and so do the Popish persecutors, beginning their processes against the martyrs with, "In the name of God, Amen," and taking for their posy these words of the psalmist, "Our help is in the name of the Lord." "Thou art near in their mouth," saith the prophet concerning such, "but far from their reins." Jer 12:2 They are right blackamoors, white nowhere but in the teeth.