Gath

Vers 4: He tells them about his experiences in Gath, God has helped him from the hands of his enemies and it is his believe, that God also in the future will deliver him from the hands of all foes.

David’s prayer: In times of distress not depressed. 2008

Gath is not mentioned because it was overthrown in the same war.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Gath is omitted, being at this time under the Jews 'dominion.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

(The opposite formula to "Tell it not in Gath," namely, lest the heathen should glory over Israel).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

God, even when he had by his fear and folly thrown himself into the hands of the Philistines; it was when they took him in Gath, whither he fled for fear of Saul, forgetting the quarrel they had with him for killing Goliath; but they soon put him in mid of it, 1 Sam. xxi.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

But when Uzziah died, or rather abdicated, it was told with joy in Gath and published in the streets of Ashkelon.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

But it is a hard case that a son of Abraham must be forced to appeal to a Philistine, to a Nero, from those who call themselves the seed of Abraham, and shall be safer in Gath or Rome than in Jerusalem.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

If it could have been concealed, we would have said, Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

Perhaps as accurate a statement as any, of my opinions, was made by George Alfred Townsend, over his _nom de plume_ of "Gath," in the New York "Graphic" of April 12, 1878.

Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman