1 Samuel 30:1-13

30:1

came <0935> [were come.]

third <07992> [on 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.

Amalekites <06003> [the Amalekites.]

30:2

kill anyone <04191 0376> [slew not.]

30:3

burned <08313> [burned.]

30:4

Then <05375> [lifted up.]

30:5

two wives .............. widow <08147 0802> [two wives.]

30:6

very <03966> [was greatly.]

men <05971> [the people.]

<04843> [grieved. Heb. bitter.]

David ....................... David <01732> [David.]

30:7

Abiathar .......... Abiathar <054> [Abiathar.]

30:8

inquired <07592> [enquired.]

saying .... pursue .......... said .... Pursue <0559 07291> [he answered him.]

30:10

hundred ........ hundred <03967> [for two hundred.]

exhausted <06296> [so faint.]

Wadi Besor <05158 01308> [the brook Besor.]

This brook or torrent, it is evident from the circumstances of the history, must be in the south-west part of Judea, and must empty itself into the Mediterranean Sea. In the more particular situation of it writers are not agreed. Some suppose it to be between Gaza and Rhinocorura; but Jerome places it between Rhinocorura and Egypt. It is supposed by some to be the same as the river of the wilderness, (Am 6:14,) and the river of Egypt, Jos 15:4.

30:11

gave ... bread <05414 03899> [gave him.]

30:12

<07307> [his spirit.]

three days ... three <07969 03117> [three days.]

30:13

master <0113> [my master.]

Though they had booty enough, and this poor sick slave might have been carried on an ass or a camel, yet they inhumanely left him to perish; but, in the righteous providence of God, this cruelty was the occasion of their destruction; whilst David's kindness to a perishing stranger and slave was the means of his success, and proved the truest policy.