Num 24:20, Deu 25:17-19, 1Sa 15:2-3, 7-8, 18, 27:8-9, 30:1, 17 | TSK | STEP | the first of the nations. or, the first of the nations thatwarred against Israel. his latter end. shall be that he perish for ever. or, shall be even todestruction.

Now go.The Amalekites, a people of Arabia Petræa, who inhabited a tract of country on the frontiers of Egypt and Canaan, had acted with great cruelty towards the Israelites on their coming out of Egypt, and God then purposed that Amalek, as a nation, should be blotted out from under heaven; but it had been spared till it had filled up the measure of its iniquities, and now this purpose is carried into effect by Saul, upwards of 400 years afterwards! Nothing could justify such an exterminating decree but the absolute authority of God; and this was given: all the reasons of it we do not know; but this we know well, the Judge of all the earth doeth right.

utterly destroy.

Le 27:28,29; Nu 24:20; De 13:15,16; 20:16-18; Jos 6:17-21

slay.

Ex 20:5; Nu 31:17; Isa 14:21,22

ox and sheep.

Ge 3:17,18; Ro 8:20-22

1 Samuel 15:7-8

smote.

14:48; Job 21:30; Ec 8:13

Havilah.This Havilah was probably situated in Arabia, and the district of Chaulon may mark the spot. It seems different from that encompassed by the river Pison, one of the rivers of Eden.

Ge 2:11; 25:18

Shur.

27:8; Ge 16:7

Agag.

3; Nu 24:7; 1Ki 20:30,34-42; Es 3:1

utterly.

27:8; 30:1; Jos 10:39; 11:12

1 Samuel 15:18

the sinners.

Ge 13:13; 15:16; Nu 16:38; Job 31:3; Pr 10:29; 13:21

they be consumed. Heb. they consume them.

1 Samuel 27:8-9

A.M. 2948. B.C. 1056. An. Ex. Is. 435. the Geshurites.

Jos 13:2,13; 2Sa 13:37,38; 14:23,32; 15:8; 1Ch 2:23

Gezrites. or, Gerzites.These people seem to be the Gerrhenians, (2 Mac 13:24) whose chief city, Gerrha, is mentioned by Strabo as lying between Gaza and Pelusium in Egypt.

the Amalekites.

Jos 16:10; Jud 1:29; 1Ki 9:15-17

as thou goest.

15:7,8; 30:1; Ex 17:14-16

left neither.

15:7; Ge 16:7; 25:18; Ex 15:22

and the camels.

15:3; De 25:17-19; Jos 6:21

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 30:17

the next day. Heb. their morrow. and there.

11:11; Jud 4:16; 1Ki 20:29,30; Ps 18:42