1Sa 30:1-7, 1Ch 4:43, Est 3:1, 7:10, 9:7-10, Psa 83:7-17 | 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 30:1-7

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

1 Chronicles 4:43

the rest.That is, those who escaped in the war which Saul, and afterwards David, made against them.

Ex 17:14-16; De 25:17-19; 1Sa 15:7,8; 30:17; 2Sa 8:12

unto this day.

De 34:6; Jud 1:26; 2Ch 5:9; Jer 44:6; Mt 27:8; 28:15

Esther 3:1

1 Haman, advanced by the king, and despised by Mordecai, seeks revenge upon all the Jews.

7 He casts lots.

8 He obtains by calumniation a decree of the king to put the Jews to death.

A.M. 3551. B.C. 453. promote Haman.

7:6; Ps 12:8; Pr 29:2

Agagite.

Nu 24:7; 1Sa 15:8,33

above all the princes.

1:14; Ge 41:40,55; Ezr 7:14; Da 6:2

Esther 7:10

Then was the king's.

Jud 15:7; Eze 5:13; Zec 6:8

Esther 9:7-10

ten sons.

5:11; Ex 20:5; Job 18:18,19; 27:13-15; Ps 21:10; 109:12,13

enemy.

3:1; 7:4,6; Ex 17:16

but on the spoil.It does not appear that the Jews slew any person who did not rise up to destroy them: they stood for their lives; and gave full proof that they sought their own personal safety, and not the property of their enemies: though the decree in their favour gave them authority to take the property of all their adversaries.

15,16

8:11; Ge 14:23; Ro 12:17; Php 4:8