Abimelech ben Maachah

• General Notes
  • Achish (King of the Philistines, also called ABIMELECH) David escapes  to (1Samuel 21:10-15; 27; 28:1,2; 29; 1 Kings 2:39,40)  Abimelech 4.  Achish (King of the Philistines, also called ABIMELECH) A?אשchish  (angry ), a Philistine king of Gath, who in the title of the 34th      Psalm is called Abimelech. David twice found a refuge with him when    he fled f romSaul. (B.C. 1061.) On the first occasion he was alarmed  for his safet y, feigned madness, and wa Abimelech my father a king,  or father of a king 5. Achish, king of Gath, inthe title of Psalms  34. (Compare 1 Samuel   21 :10-15.)