And there deserted some of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the lords of the Philistines after counsel sent him away, saying, He will desert to his master Saul to the peril of our heads.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Fight. They joined him after he had left the Philistines. (Calmet)
But he. Hebrew, "they helped them not. "Neither David nor his partizans were involved in this danger, which might have caused their fidelity to be suspected, 1 Kings xxix. (Haydock)