SEV Biblia, Chapter 29:2
Y reconociendo los príncipes de los filisteos sus compańías de a ciento y de a mil hombres, David y los suyos iban en los postreros con Aquis.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 29:2
Verse 2. By hundreds, and by thousands] They were probably divided, as the Jewish armies, by fifties, hundreds, and thousands; each having its proper officer or captain.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 2. And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands , etc.] Not that there were so many lords, for there were but five of them; but these marched, some at the head of hundreds with them, and others at the head of thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish ; who being the generalissimo brought up the rear, and David, whom he had appointed captain of his bodyguards, attended him with his men, which in point of gratitude he could not refuse; and yet was in the greatest strait and difficulty how to act, it being both against his conscience and his interest to fight against Israel, and was waiting and hoping for some appearance of Providence to deliver him out of this dilemma, and which was quickly seen; but Abarbinel thinks David had no other notion in going to the battle, but of being the bodyguard of Achish, and accompanying him, and that he should not fight against Israel, nor for the Philistines: neither harm the one, nor help the other.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-5 - David waited with a secret hope that the Lord would help him out of his difficulty. But he seems to have been influenced too much by the fea of man, in consenting to attend Achish. It is hard to come near to the brink of sin, and not to fall in. God inclined the princes of the Philistines to oppose David's being employed in the battle. Thus their dislike befriended him, when no friend could do him such a kindness.
Original Hebrew
וסרני 5633 פלשׁתים 6430 עברים 5674 למאות 3967 ולאלפים 505 ודוד 1732 ואנשׁיו 376 עברים 5674 באחרנה 314 עם 5973 אכישׁ׃ 397
