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Verse 1 Samuel 30:13. _MY MASTER LEFT ME, BECAUSE THREE DAYS AGONE I
FELL_ _SICK._] This was very inhuman: though they had booty enough,
and no doubt asses sufficient to carry the invalids, yet they...
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CHAPTER 30
_ 1. The Amalekites destroy Ziklag (1 Samuel 30:1)_
2. David's distress and return unto the Lord (1 Samuel 30:6)
3. David pursues the Amalekites (1 Samuel 30:9)
4. The young Egyptian
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1 SAMUEL 30. AMALEKITE RAID ON ZIKLAG._ Cf._ above.
1 SAMUEL 30:1. On reaching Ziklag, David found that the Amalekites
had sacked the town and carried off the families and property of
himself and hi...
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_To whom belongest thou_ His appearance shewed that he was a slave.
_servant_ SLAVE: captured in some Amalekite foray.
_three days agone_ So that more than three days had elapsed since the
sack of Z...
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The pursuit
7. _bring me hither the ephod_ He desired to consult God by means of
the Urim and Thummim, as before at Keilah (1 Samuel 23:9)....
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_David's Pursuit of His Enemies._ 1 Samuel 30:7-20
7 And David said _to_ Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray
thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the
ephod to David....
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THE AMALEKITES RAID ZIKLAG, AND ARE PURSUED BY DAVID
2. Slew not any] They would be valuable as slaves....
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MY MASTER LEFT ME] The life of a slave was of little more importance
than that of a horse....
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 30
DAVID FIGHTS THE *AMALEKITES
V1 David and his men arrived at Ziklag three days later. The
*Amalekites had attacked the southern part of th...
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וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר לֹ֤ו דָוִד֙ לְֽ מִי
־אַ֔תָּה
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CHAPTER XXXV.
_ DAVID AT ZIKLAG._
1 Samuel 30:1.
AFTER David had received from King Achish the appointment of captain
of his body guard, he had with his troops accompanied the Philistine
army, passi...
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A BLOW THAT LED BACK TO GOD
1 Samuel 30:1
As David was leaving the battlefield, a number of men of Manasseh fell
to him, 1 Chronicles 12:20, so his following was greatly increased. It
was as if God h...
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Being thus delivered, David returned to Ziklag. In his absence it had
been sacked by the Amalekites. Immediately the true spirit of
patriotic heroism was stirred within him, and he moved with rapid
de...
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_Ago. His master's inhumanity was justly punished, and God provided
for the safety of his poor slave, while he sent a guide for David.
(Haydock)_...
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(11) And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to
David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink
water; (12) And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two
clu...
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We enter now on a portion of David's history sensibly different from
what we have already had, which closed with the efforts of Jonathan to
restore matters and to attach Saul to him at least openly. J...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 29 AND 30.
In chapter 29 God, in His loving-kindness, brings David out of his
difficulty by means of the jealousy of the lords of the Philistines.
Nevertheles...
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AND DAVID SAID UNTO HIM, TO WHOM [BELONGEST] THOU?.... To what country
or people? and to whom among them?
AND WHENCE [ART] THOU? of what nation? where wast thou born? what
countryman art thou? for hi...
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And David said unto him, To whom [belongest] thou? and whence [art]
thou? And he said, I [am] a young man of Egypt, servant to an
Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell
sick...
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_Three days and nights_ One whole day, and part of two others, as
appears from the next verse, where he says, _Three days ago I fell
sick;_ but in the Hebrew it is, _This is the third day since I fell...
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1 The Amalekites spoile Ziklag.
4 Dauid asking counsell, is encouraged by God to pursue them.
11 By the meanes of a reuiued Egyptian, he is brought to the enemies,
and recouereth all the spoile.
22...
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And David said unto him, when he was strong enough to talk, TO WHOM
BELONGEST THOU? AND WHENCE ARE THOU? AND HE SAID, I AM A YOUNG MAN OF
EGYPT, SERVANT, slave, TO AN AMALEKITE; AND MY MASTER LEFT ME...
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DAVID RECOVERS THE SPOIL...
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Returning to Ziklag, David and his men find themselves described by
the meaning of Zikiag's name, "enveloped in grief." They had been at
least some days away, and the Amalekites had invaded the land,...
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7-15 If in all our ways, even when, as in this case, there can be no
doubt they are just, we acknowledge God, we may expect that he will
direct our steps, as he did those of David. David, in tenderne...
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I AM A YOUNG MAN OF EGYPT; God by his providence so ordering it, that
he was not one of that cursed race of the Amalekites, who were to be
utterly destroyed, but an Egyptian, who might be spared. MY M...
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1 Samuel 30:13 David H1732 said H559 (H8799) said H559 (H8799) man
H5288 Egypt H4713 servant H5650 Amalekite...
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DAVID AND HIS MEN PURSUE THE AMALEKITES AND DESTROY THEM, RECOVERING
ALL THAT THEY HAD LOST AND MORE IN ABUNDANCE (1 SAMUEL 30:7).
The Amalekites, aware that any opposition to what they had done was
s...
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CONTENTS: David avenges the destruction of Ziglag.
CHARACTERS: God, David, Abiathar, an Egyptian.
CONCLUSION: When we go abroad to tarry for a while with the enemies of
God's people, we may expect t...
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1 Samuel 30:7. _Abiathar brought the ephod._ None but the priest could
wear this, and as the highpriest could not consult the oracle without
the knowledge of his sovereign, Abiathar wore the ephod, an...
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_And they found an Egyptian in the field._
CHRISTIAN BENEFICENCE
The debasing influence of prosperity and success, and the humanising
tendency of disaster and distress, were never more strikingly
con...
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_When David and his men were come to Ziklag._
DAVID IN THREE SITUATIONS
at Ziklag in his distress, on his way to the Amalekites, and among the
Amalekites.
I. David in his distress. See in it the fr...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
1 Samuel 30:1. “THE SOUTH,” or the _Negeb_, the south country, so
called by the Israelites as being the southern part of Palentine.
1 Samuel 30:2. “THEY SLEW NOT ANY.”...
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DAVID RESCUES HIS WIVES FROM THE AMALEKITES (1 Samuel 30:1).
EXPOSITION
DAVID UPON HIS RETURN FINDS ZIKLAG BURNT BY T
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And when they got back to Ziklag they found that the Amalekites had
invaded the land (1 Samuel 30:1);
Now here's something quite interesting. The Amalekites were the ones
that God ordered utterly exte...
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James 2:13; Job 31:13; Proverbs 12:10...
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Egypt — God by his providence so ordering it, that he was not one of
that cursed race of the Amalekites, who were to be utterly destroyed,
but an Egyptian, who might be spared. Left me — In this place...