1Sa 22:2, 27:2-3, 30:1, 9-10, 1Ch 12:1-7 | TSK | STEP | distress. was in debt. Heb. had a creditor. discontented. Heb. bitter of soul. a captain.

1 Samuel 22:2

distress.

Jud 11:3; Mt 11:12,28

was in debt. Heb. had a creditor.

Mt 18:25-34

discontented. Heb. bitter of soul.

1:10; 30:6; Jud 18:25; 2Sa 17:8; Pr 31:6; *margins

a captain.

9:16; 25:15,16; 30:22-24; 2Sa 5:2; 2Ki 20:5; 1Ch 11:15-19

Ps 72:12-14; Mt 9:12,13; Heb 2:10

1 Samuel 27:2-3

David.This measure of David's, in uniting himself to the enemies of his God and people, was highly blameable; was calculated to alienate the affections of the Israelites; and led to equivocation, if not downright falsehood.

the six.

25:13; 30:8

Achish.

21:10; 1Ki 2:40

with his two.

25:3,18-35,42,43; 30:5

1 Samuel 30:1

1 The Amalekites spoil Ziklag.

4 David asking counsel, is encouraged by God to pursue them.

11 By the means of a revived Egyptian he is brought to the enemies, and recovers all the spoil.

22 David's law to divide the spoil equally between them that fight and them that keep the stuff.

26 He sends presents to his friends.

were come.

29:11; 2Sa 1:2

on the third.This was the third day after he had left the Philistine army at Aphek, from which place, Calmet supposes, Ziklag was distant more than thirty leagues.

the Amalekites.

15:7; 27:8-10; Ge 24:62; Jos 11:6

1 Samuel 30:9-10

for two hundred.

so faint.

14:20,31; Jud 8:4,5

the brook Besor.This brook or torrent, it is evident from the circumstances of the history, must be in the south-west part of Judea, and must empty itself into the Mediterranean Sea. In the more particular situation of it writers are not agreed. Some suppose it to be between Gaza and Rhinocorura; but Jerome places it between Rhinocorura and Egypt. It is supposed by some to be the same as the river of the wilderness, (Am 6:14,) and the river of Egypt, Jos 15:4.

1 Chronicles 12:1-7

1 The companies that came to David at Ziklag.

23 The armies that came to him at Hebron.

these are.

1Sa 27:2,6; 2Sa 1:1; 4:10

while he yet, etc. Heb. being yet shut up.Sometimes, in the East, when a successful prince endeavoured to extirpate the preceding royal family, some of them escaped the slaughter, and secured themselves in an impregnable fortress, or in a place of great secrecy; while others have been known to seek an asylum in a foreign county, from when they have occasioned, from time to time, great anxiety and great difficulties to the usurper of the crown. The expression shut up, so often applied to the extermination of eastern royal families. (De 32:32. 1 Ki 14:10; 21:21. 2 Ki 9:8; 14:26,) strictly speaking, refers to the two first of these cases; but the term may be used in a more extensive sense, for those who, by retiring into deserts, or foreign countries, preserve themselves from being slain by the men who usurp the dominions of their ancestors. Thus the term is here applied to David, though he did not shut himself up, strictly speaking, in Ziklag. It is described as a town in the country, and was probably an unwalled town; and it is certain that he did not confine himself to it, but, on the contrary, was continually making excursions from thence.

Saul.

the mighty.

could use.

in hurling.

Shemaah. or, Hasmaah. Gibeathite.

1Sa 11:4; 2Sa 21:6

Azmaveth.

11:33