22:3
David then went to the king of Moab asking him to let his parents stay with him until he knew what to do. Now Moab was traditionally an enemy of Israel, so why would David expect to find favour there? There are two possible reasons. One is that Saul had fought against Moab, so perhaps it was a case of “my enemy’s enemy ...”. Another is that Ruth, David’s great grandmother, Ruth, was a Moabite. David also says that he will seek the Lord’s guidance.
22:4,5
It seems that the king of Moab was agreeable to David’s request, and he left his parents (who by now would be quite elderly) there. The prophet Gad came to David and told him to leave the stronghold and go to Judah. So David now has a prophet, later on in the chapter we will see that he gets a priest as well. In Jesus the roles of king, prophet and priest were rolled into one. By nature we seek places of safety. There is nothing inherently wrong with this, but there comes a time when we need to leave the place of apparent safety and go to the place where God wants us to be. Israel failed to do this when they refused to go into the Promised Land. However, David obeys the word of the Lord and goes to Hereth. We don’t know where Hereth was, apart from it being in Judah.
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