Joshua 15:31
Ziklag.19:5; 1Sa 27:6; 30:1; 1Ch 12:1Joshua 19:5
Ziklag.15:31; 1Sa 27:6; 30:1Hazar-susah.1Ch 4:31Hazar-susim.1 Samuel 27:6
Ziklag.Ziklag was at first given to the tribe of Judah, but was afterwards ceded to that of Simeon; but as it bordered on the Philistines, if they had ever been expelled, they had retaken it. Eusebius simply says it was situated in the south of Canaan. 30:1,14; 19:5; 2Sa 1:1; 1Ch 4:30; 12:1,20; Ne 11:281 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 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.11:10,19,24,25Nehemiah 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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