And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.
David said ... Canst thou bring me down to this company? The Hebrews were led, from the physical conformation of Palestine, to regard the north as higher, and the south us lower. Thus David was brought down to the country of the Amalekites which lay south from Israel. Swear unto me by God. Whether there was still among these idolatrous tribes a lingering belief in one God, or this Egyptian wished to bind David by the God whom the Hebrews worshipped, the solemn sanction of an oath was mutually recognized.