Again, when we read in Numb. xi. 31, 32. of God’s _feeding Israel_, upon their murmuring in the desert, for want of flesh, _with quails in great abundance_; this is mentioned elsewhere, in Psal. lxxviii. 27. in which we have an account, that these quails were a sort of _feathered fowl_, which could not have been so well understood by the sense of the Hebrew word, which we render _quails_[39]. We have also an account, in Exod. xvii. 6. of God’s supplying them with _water out of the rock in Horeb_; and if we compare this with Psal. cv. 41. we shall find that this water issued from thence in so large a stream, that it was like a _river_. And the apostle Paul gives farther light to it, when he says, speaking in a figurative way, that _the rock followed them_, 1 Cor. x. 4. that is, the water that ran from it like a river, did not flow in a right line; but, by a continued miracle, changed its course, as they altered their stations, in their various removes from place to place in the wilderness. And he also adds, that God designed this to be a type of Christ. I might also observe, that there were many things in the life of David, after his expulsion from Saul’s court, that would argue him an usurper; inasmuch as he did not barely fly to secure his life, which he might lawfully do, as a private person; but he raised a small army; and accordingly it is said, in 2 Sam. xxii. 2. that every one that was ‘in distress, or in debt, or discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over him; and there were with him about four hundred men.’ And Jonathan, who was heir apparent to the crown, is forced to capitulate with, and take an oath of him, that he would grant him his life, as concluding, that he would be king after his father’s death, 1 Sam. xx. 14, 15. compared with the 42. and Saul’s jealousy hereof, which was attended with rage, amounting to a kind of destraction, was not altogether without ground; as he intimates to him, when he tells him, ‘Behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king,’ chap. xxiv. 20. and accordingly, in the following verses, he makes him ‘swear to him, that he would not cut off his seed after him, or destroy his name out of his father’s house.’ Now this could hardly be justified, if we did not consider what we read in another part of scripture, that, before that time, God had taken away the kingdom from Saul, and anointed David to be king in his stead, in 1 Sam. xvi. 13. though he had not the actual possession of it till after Saul’s death.