David praises God for his goodness to himself and others,
ver. 1-7. Encourages the righteous to trust in him, ver. 8-10. Exhorts
them to fear God and depart from evil, ver. 11-14. God's favour to the
righteous and displeasure at the wicked, ver. 15-22 A psalm of David,
when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech: who drove him away, and
he departed. Title of the psalm. When - A psalm made upon that occasion,
though not at that time, when he counterfeited madness. Wherein whether
he sinned or not, is matter of dispute; but this is undoubted, that his
deliverance deserved this solemn acknowledgment. Abimelech - Called
Achish, 1 Sam. xxi, 10. But Abimelech seems to have been the common name of the
kings of the Philistines, Gen. xx, 2; xxvi, 1, as Pharaoh was of the Egyptians.
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