1Sa 30:1-17 | TSK | STEP | The Amalekites spoil Ziklag. David asking counsel, is encouraged by God to pursue them. By the means of a revived Egyptian he is brought to the enemies, and recovers all the spoil. David's law to divide the spoil equally between them that fight and them that keep the stuff. He sends presents to his friends. were come. 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.

1 Samuel 30:1-17

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.

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

slew not.

19; 27:11; Job 38:11; Ps 76:10; Isa 27:8,9

burned.

Ps 34:19; Heb 12:6; 1Pe 1:6,7; Re 3:9

lifted up.

4:13; 11:4; Ge 37:33-35; Nu 14:1,39; Jud 2:4; 21:2; Ezr 10:1

two wives.

1:2; 25:42,43; 27:3; 2Sa 2:2; 3:2,3

was greatly.

Ge 32:7; Ps 25:17; 42:7; 116:3,4,10; 2Co 1:8,9; 4:8; 7:5

the people.

Ex 17:4; Nu 14:10; Ps 62:9; Mt 21:9; 27:22

grieved. Heb. bitter.

1:10; Jud 18:25; 2Sa 17:8; 2Ki 4:27; *margins

David.

Job 13:15; Ps 18:6; 26:1,2; 27:1-3; 34:1-8; 40:1,2; 42:5,11

Ps 56:3,4,11; 62:1,5,8; 118:8-13; Pr 18:10; Isa 25:4; 37:14-20

Jer 16:19; Hab 3:17,18; Ro 4:18; 8:31; 2Co 1:6,9,10; Heb 13:6

Abiathar.

22:20,21; 23:2-9; 1Ki 2:26; Mr 2:26

enquired.

23:2,4,10-12; Jud 20:18,23,28; 2Sa 5:19,23; Pr 3:5,6

he answered him.

14:37; 28:6,15,16; Nu 27:21; Ps 50:15; 91:15

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.

gave him.

De 15:7-11; 23:7; Pr 25:21; Mt 25:35; Lu 10:36,37; Ro 12:20,21

his spirit.

14:27; Jud 15:19; Isa 40:29-31

three days.

13; Es 4:16; Jon 1:17; Mt 27:63

my master.Though they had booty enough, and this poor sick slave might have been carried on an ass or a camel, yet they inhumanely left him to perish; but, in the righteous providence of God, this cruelty was the occasion of their destruction; whilst David's kindness to a perishing stranger and slave was the means of his success, and proved the truest policy.

Job 31:13-15; Pr 12:10; Jas 2:13

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 2:5

Caleb.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; 15:13

we burned.

1-3

Swear.

29:6; Jos 2:12; 9:15,19,20; Eze 17:13,16,19

nor deliver.

De 23:15,16

when he.

Jud 1:24,25

eating.

25:36-38; Ex 32:6,17-19,27,28; Jud 16:23-30; 2Sa 13:28; Isa 22:13

Da 5:1-4; Lu 12:19,20; 17:27-29; 21:34,35; 1Th 5:3; Re 11:10-13

because of all.

Job 20:5

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

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