-
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
-
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...
-
_abode behind_ STAYED, as in 1 Samuel 30:9. The condensed expression
of the last clause of 1 Samuel 30:9 is explained by 1 Samuel 30:10.
_were so faint_ A verb found only here and in...
-
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)....
-
_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....
-
_BUT DAVID PURSUED, HE AND FOUR HUNDRED MEN: FOR TWO HUNDRED ABODE
BEHIND, WHICH WERE SO FAINT THAT THEY COULD NOT GO OVER THE BROOK
BESOR._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
-
THE AMALEKITES RAID ZIKLAG, AND ARE PURSUED BY DAVID
2. Slew not any] They would be valuable as slaves....
-
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...
-
וַ יִּרְדֹּ֣ף דָּוִ֔ד ה֖וּא וְ
אַרְבַּע ־מֵאֹ
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
CHAPTER XXX.
_ Weary. Hebrew pigru, denotes those who are "lazy and dead."
Septuagint, "some sat down on the other side of the torrent." Syriac
and Arabic insinuate, to defend the passage. But why th...
-
(9) So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and
came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
(10) But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundre...
-
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...
-
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...
-
BUT DAVID PURSUED, HE AND FOUR HUNDRED MEN,.... Not discouraged with
being obliged to leave a third part of his little army behind; though
it was doubtless a trial of his faith, with these to pursue a...
-
But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode
behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook
Besor.
Ver. 10. _He and four hundred men._] For those six hundred w...
-
_Where those that were left behind stayed_ Those that were left to
look after the stuff, 1 Samuel 30:24; who were so tired, that they
were not able to march any further. _David pursued, he and four
hu...
-
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...
-
David's Return to Ziklag...
-
But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred abode
behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook
Besor, the crossing of which seems to have been connected with great...
-
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,...
-
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...
-
FOUR HUNDRED MEN; a small number for such an attempt; but David was
strong in faith, giving God the glory of his power and faithfulness....
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
_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...
-
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.”...
-
DAVID RESCUES HIS WIVES FROM THE AMALEKITES (1 Samuel 30:1).
EXPOSITION
DAVID UPON HIS RETURN FINDS ZIKLAG BURNT BY T
-
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...
-
1 Samuel 14:20; 1 Samuel 14:31; 1 Samuel 30:21; Amos 6:14; Joshua 15:4
-
Four hundred — A small number for such an attempt: but David was
strong in faith, giving God the glory of his power and faithfulness....