Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 4. Behold, God is mine helper ] This would naturally occur to him when he saw that Saul was obliged to leave the pursuit, and go to defend his territories, when he was on the very point of seizing him. God, whose providence is ever watchful, had foreseen this danger and stirred up the Philistines to make this inroad just at the time in which Saul and his army were about to lay hands on David. Well might he then say, "Behold, God is mine helper." Is with them, that uphold my soul. - ypn naphshi, my life. This may even refer to the Philistines, who had at this time made an inroad on Israel.
God was even with his own enemies, by making them instruments to save the life of his servant.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 4-7 - Behold, God is mine Helper. If we are for him, he is for us; and if he is for us, we need not fear. Every creature is that to us, and no more which God makes it to be. The Lord will in due time save his people and in the mean time he sustains them, and bears them up, so that the spirit he has made shall not fail. There is truth in God' threatenings, as well as in his promises; sinners that repent not, wil find it so to their cost. David's present deliverance was an earnest of further deliverance. He speaks of the completion of his deliverance a a thing done, though he had as yet many troubles before him; because having God's promise for it, he was as sure of it as if it was don already. The Lord would deliver him out of all his troubles. May he help us to bear our cross without repining, and at length bring us to share his victories and glory. Christians never should suffer the voic of praise and thanksgiving to cease in the church of the redeemed _________________________________________________
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