Here is, 1. The malice of David's enemies against him. They were wicked
men, who hated him for his godliness. There were bands or troops of
them confederate against him. They did him all the mischief they could;
they robbed him; having endeavoured to take away his good name (v. 51),
they set upon his goods, and spoiled him of them, either by plunder in
time of war or by fines and confiscations under colour of law. Saul (it
is likely) seized his effects, Absalom his palace, and the Amalekites
rifled Ziklag. Worldly wealth is what we may be robbed of. David,
though a man of war, could not keep his own. Thieves break through and
steal. 2. The testimony of David's conscience for him that he had held
fast his religion when he was stripped of every thing else, as Job did
when the bands of the Chaldeans and Sabeans had robbed him: But I have
not forgotten thy law. No care nor grief should drive God's word out of
our minds, or hinder our comfortable relish of it and converse with it.
Nor must we ever think the worse of the ways of God for any trouble we
meet with in those ways, nor fear being losers by our religion at last,
however we may be losers for it now.