Wesley Corpus

To this day - This, and some such clauses seem to have been added, after the main substance of the several books was written. Amalekites - The remnant of those whom Saul destroyed, chap.15:3 - 9, who retired into remote and desert places. Let neither man, &c. - In that part where he came: but there were more of the Amalekites yet left in another part of that land. David - These and the following words are ambiguous, and contrary to that simplicity which became David, both as a prince, and as an eminent professor of the true religion. The fidelity of Achish to him, and the confidence he put in him, aggravates his sin in thus deceiving him, which David seems penitently to reflect on, when he prays, Remove from me the way of lying. Chapter XXVIII