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Verse 1 Samuel 30:17. _THERE ESCAPED NOT A MAN OF THEM_] It is well
known to every careful reader of the Bible, that the _Amalekites_ were
a proscribed people, even by God himself, and that in extirp...
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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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THE TWILIGHT. the morning. Hebrew. _nesheph, a_ Homonym: meaning (1)
_darkness,_ 2 Kings 7:5; 2 Kings 7:7; Job 24:15.Proverbs 7:9;...
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AND DAVID SMOTE THEM, &C.— The number of Amalekites that fled, was
equal to that of all David's forces; and out of self-preservation, he
was obliged to put as many of them to the sword as he could, to...
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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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_AND DAVID SMOTE THEM FROM THE TWILIGHT EVEN UNTO THE EVENING OF THE
NEXT DAY: AND THERE ESCAPED NOT A MAN OF THEM, SAVE FOUR HUNDRED YOUNG
MEN, WHICH RODE UPON CAMELS, AND FLED._
There escaped not a...
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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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TWILIGHT] This is probably the evening twilight....
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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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FROM TWILIGHT EVEN UNTO THE EVENING OF THE NEXT DAY. — Keil thinks
the fighting went on from the evening twilight till the evening of the
next day. Bishop Hervey, in the _Speaker’s Commentary,_ with g...
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וַ יַּכֵּ֥ם דָּוִ֛ד מֵ הַ נֶּ֥שֶׁף וְ
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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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SHARING THE SPOIL
1 Samuel 30:16
He that lays hold on God's strength will be courteous in his behavior
to the weak and weary, and will not quail before the clamor of men of
Belial. Thus we are not su...
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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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And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening (i) of
the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred
young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
(i) Some read, an...
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Evening. Hebrew, "twilight," in the morning (Calmet) or evening.
(Haydock) --- Some think that the pursuit lasted three days; others
only from three till five in the evening. But David more probably
s...
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(16) And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad
upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all
the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the
P...
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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 SMOTE THEM FROM THE TWILIGHT EVEN UNTO THE EVENING OF THE
NEXT DAY,.... As there are two twilights, the twilight of the morning,
and the twilight of the evening; this is differently understo...
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And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the
next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young
men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
Ver. 17. _From the tw...
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_They were spread upon all the earth_ Secure and careless, because
they were now come almost to the borders of their own country, and the
Philistines and Israelites both were otherwise engaged, and Da...
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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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DAVID RECOVERS THE SPOIL...
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And David, finding them so utterly unprepared, SMOTE THEM FROM THE
TWILIGHT, from the break of day, EVEN UNTO THE EVENING OF THE NEXT
DAY, literally, "of their morrow," for the Israelites began their...
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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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THE NEXT DAY:
_ Heb._ their morrow...
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16-20 Sinners are nearest to ruin, when they cry, Peace and safety,
and put the evil day far from them. Nor does any thing give our
spiritual enemies more advantage than sensuality and indulgence.
Eat...
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FROM THE TWILIGHT: the word signifies both the morning and evening
twilight. But the latter seems here intended, partly because their
eating, and drinking, and dancing was more customary and proper wo...
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1 Samuel 30:17 David H1732 attacked H5221 (H8686) twilight H5399
evening H6153 day H4283 man H376 escaped H4422 ...
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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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_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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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 30:17 The word translated TWILIGHT usually
means “dusk” but occasionally it can mean “dawn.” The meaning
of the word here is not clear. If it means “dawn,” David and his
men...
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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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1 Kings 20:29; 1 Kings 20:30; 1 Samuel 11:11; Judges 4:16; Psalms 18
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Twilight — The word signifies both the morning and evening twilight.
But the latter seems here intended, partly because their eating, and
drinking, and dancing, was more proper work for the evening, t...