John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 6. Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day , etc.] A city which in the division of the land was given to the tribe of Judah, and after that to the tribe of Simeon, ( Joshua 15:31 19:5); though it seems not to have been possessed by either of them, at least not long, but soon came into the hands of the Philistines, who kept it till this time, and now it returned to its right owners; according to Bunting it was twelve miles from Gath: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day ; not to the tribe of Judah, though it originally belonged to it, but to the kings of it, it, being granted to David, who quickly after this became king of Judah; and this was annexed to the crown lands, and ever after enjoyed by the kings, of the house of Judah; for this was not given for a temporary habitation, but for perpetual possession. This clause seems to be added by the continuator of this history, after the death of Samuel; who might be Gad or Nathan; some say Ezra, and Abarbinel that Jeremiah was the writer of it.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - Unbelief is a sin that easily besets even good men, when without ar fightings, and within are fears; and it is a hard matter to get ove them. Lord, increase our faith! We may blush to think that the word of a Philistine should go further than the word of an Israelite, and tha the city of Gath should be a place of refuge for a good man, when the cities of Israel refuse him a safe abode. David gained a comfortabl settlement, not only at a distance from Gath, but bordering upo Israel, where he might keep up a correspondence with his ow countrymen.
Original Hebrew ויתן5414 לו אכישׁ397 ביום3117 ההוא1931 את853 צקלג6860 לכן3651 היתה1961 צקלג6860 למלכי4428 יהודה3063 עד5704 היום3117 הזה׃2088
