The Origin of Freemasonry and Knights Templar ... - Lodge Prudentia

FREEMASONRY AND KNIGHTS TEMPLARand employed only against the enemies of the land.He was stillpursued by Saul with implacable hostility;and, as he would notMift his hand against hisking, though he often had him in his power, he atlength judgedit best to retire into the land of thePhilistines. Here he was generously received as anenemy of Saul and of Israel, and given the town ofZiklag* as a dwelling-place, where he and his men,with their households, lived while in that country,and which has been "held by the kings of Judahunto this day/'In 1055 B. C, while the armies of the Philistineswere being assembled at Aphek, a city of the tribeof Issachar, in the valley of Jezreel, preparatory tothe attack upon the Israelites, who were campedThey said, "Is not this David of whom theyat Jezreel near by in the same valley, the princesof the Philistines became suspicious of David andhis forces who had accompanied them, and madecomplaint to Achish, their king, not to let him gointo battle with them, lest he become their adversary.sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slewhis thousand, and David his ten thousand?"ThenAchish, who had become a great friend of David,sent for him, and said unto him, "Thou hast beenupright, and thy going out and thy comingin with me isgood in my sight, for I havenot found evil in thee since the day of thycoming unto me unto this day: neverthelessthe lords favor thee not. Wherefore now return,and go in peace, that thou displease notthe lords of the Philistines." So David and hismen returned into the land of the Philistines. Ontheir arrival at Ziklag they found the town burned,37