1 Samuel 19:5
put his life.28:21; Jud 9:17; 12:3; Ps 119:109; Ac 20:24; Php 2:30slew.17:49-51wrought.11:13; 14:45; 17:52,53; Ex 14:13; 1Ch 11:14; Heb 2:3sin against innocent.20:32; Jer 26:15; Mt 27:4,24without a cause.Ps 25:3; 69:4; Joh 15:251 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 1:2on 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 11:61 Samuel 30:14
the Cherethites.Calmet and others suppose that these people, who inhabited the same district as the Philistines, were the aborigines of the island of Crete, from which they derived their name. 16; 2Sa 8:18; 1Ki 1:38,44; 1Ch 18:17; Eze 25:16; Zep 2:5Caleb.A district in the south of Judea, in which were the cities of Kirjath-Arba or Hebron, and Kirjath-sepher, belonging to the family of Caleb. Jos 14:13; 15:13we burned.1-32 Samuel 1:1
The Second Book of SAMUEL, otherwise called The Second Book of Kings. 1 The Amalekite, who brought tidings of the overthrow, and accused himself of Saul's death, is slain. 17 David laments Saul and Jonathan with a song. when David.1Sa 30:17-26Ziklag.1Sa 27:61 Chronicles 4:30
Bethuel.Jos 19:4Bethul. Ziklag.12:1; Jos 15:31; 19:5; 1Sa 27:6; 30:1; Ne 11:281 Chronicles 12:1
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; 4:10while 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.8:33; 9:39the mighty.11:10,19,24,251 Chronicles 12:20
As he went.These captains of Manasseh seem to have met David as he was returning from the army of the Philistines to Ziklag. It is probable that they did not bring their companies with them; yet they both assured him of future assistance, and very seasonably helped him against the Amalekites who had spoiled Ziklag. 1Sa 29:11captains.Ex 18:21; De 1:15; 33:17Nehemiah 11:28
Ziklag.Jos 15:31; 1Sa 27:6Mekonah.Probably the Mechanam which Jerome (in Beth-macha) places eight miles from Eleutheropolis, towards Jerusalem.
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