When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, they all went in search of him; but David learned of this and went out to face them.
This narrative of David's triumph over the Philistines is much the same with that, Sa2 5:17, etc. 1. Let the attack which the Philistines made upon David forbid us to be secure in any settlement or advancement, and engage us to expect molestation in this world. When we are most easy something or other may come to be a terror or vexation to us.
Commenting on 1 Chronicles 14:8-17
HIS VICTORIES OVER THE PHILISTINES. (Ch1 14:8-17) all the Philistines went up to seek David--in the hope of accomplishing his ruin (for so the phrase is used, Sa1 23:15; Sa1 24:2-3) before his throne was consolidated. Their hostility arose, both from a belief that his patriotism would lead him, ere long, to wipe out the national dishonor at Gilboa, and by fear, that in any...
The Philistines went up to seek David - See on Sa2 5:17 (note).