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THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS - Indicating that at least so long a time
had elapsed since the sack of Ziklag....
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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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SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9.
THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS. Figure of speech _Idioma,_ by which. part
of. day is reckoned as. whole day. See 2 Samuel 1:1; 2 Samuel 1:2, and
compare Esther 4:16;...
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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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_his spirit came again to him_ He revived. Cp. Judges 15:19....
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AND THEY GAVE HIM A PIECE OF A CAKE OF FIGS, &C.— The eastern people
are well known to carry with them in their journies several
accommodations, and _provisions_ in particular of various kinds, for,
p...
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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 THEY GAVE HIM A PIECE OF A CAKE OF FIGS, AND TWO CLUSTERS OF
RAISINS: AND WHEN HE HAD EATEN, HIS SPIRIT CAME AGAIN TO HIM: FOR HE
HAD EATEN NO BREAD, NOR DRUNK ANY WATER, THREE DAYS AND THREE NIG...
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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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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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THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS. — This was a note of time as to the
amount of start the Amalekite leader with the plunder had. It may well
be conceived there was no time to lose. The cruelty of the Amale...
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וַ יִּתְּנוּ ־לֹו֩ פֶ֨לַח דְּבֵלָ֜ה
וּ שְׁנֵ֤
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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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_Raisins. Hebrew tsimmukim. See chap. xxv. 18. (Calmet) --- The
soldiers very prudently took some provisions with them, as they were
going into a desert country. (Menochius)_...
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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 THEY GAVE HIM A PIECE OF CAKE OF FIGS,.... That were dried and
pressed together, and made into cakes:
AND TWO CLUSTERS OF RAISINS; or dried grapes, as the Targum:
AND WHEN HE HAD EATEN, HIS SPIR...
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And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of
raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he
had eaten no bread, nor drunk [any] water, three days and three
ni...
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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 they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, a slice of pressed figs,
AND TWO CLUSTERS, pressed cakes, OF RAISINS; AND WHEN HE HAD EATEN,
HIS SPIRIT CAME AGAIN TO HIM, he recovered, he was filled with...
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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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Which is to be understood synecdochically of one whole day, and part
of two others, as the same phrase is taken MATTHEW 12:40, as appears
from the next verse, where he saith, _three days agone I fell...
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1 Samuel 30:12 gave H5414 (H8799) piece H6400 cake H1690 two H8147
raisins H6778 eaten H398 (H8799) strength...
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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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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 30:11 BREAD here may refer simply to
bread, or it may be a general term for food.
⇐...
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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 Samuel 14:27; 1 Samuel 30:13; Esther 4:16; Isaiah 40:29; Jonah 1:17
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Three days and nights — One whole day and part of two others, as
appears from the next verse, where he saith, three days ago I fell
sick, but in the Hebrew it is, this is the third day since I fell
si...