1 Samuel 30:12

_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 NIGHTS._ He had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights. According to the Oriental mode of reckoning, three consecutive parts of days were counted three days (Jonah 1:17; Matthew 12:40; Matthew 27:63; Mark 8:31). Old and home-born slaves are usually treated with great kindness. But a purchased or captured slave must look to himself; for, if feeble or sick, his master will leave him to perish rather than encumb

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 tenderness to his men, would by no means urge them beyond their strength. The Son of David thus considers the frames of his followers, who are not all alike strong and vigorous in their spiritual pursuits and conflicts; but, where we are weak, there he is kind; nay more, there he is strong, 2 Corinthians 12:9; 2 Corinthians 12:10. A poor Egyptian lad, scarcely alive, is made the means of a great deal of good to David. Justly did Providence make this poor servant, who was basely used by his master, an instrument in the destruction of the Amalekites; for God hears the cry of the oppressed. Those are unw...

Verse 1 Samuel 30:12. _A CAKE OF FIGS_] See on 1 Samuel 25:18....

THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS - Indicating that at least so long a time had elapsed since the sack of Ziklag....

DAVID RESCUES HIS WIVES FROM THE AMALEKITES (1 Samuel 30:1). EXPOSITION DAVID UPON HIS RETURN FINDS ZIKLAG BURNT BY THE AMALEKITES (1 Samuel 30:1). 1 SAMUEL 30:1 ON THE THIRD DAY. David evidently could not have gone with the Philistines As far as to Shunem; for, as noticed in the previous chapter, it would have been impossible to march back to Ziklag in so short a time

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 SPIRIT CAME AGAIN TO HIM; he seemed to be quite dispirited, almost lifeless, but upon eating some food he was refreshed, and his spirits revived, and he was capable of conversing: FOR HE HAD EATEN NO BREAD, NOR DRANK [ANY] WATER, THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS; that is, one whole day, and part of two days, as appears from 1 Samuel 30:13....

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 and the defeat of the enemy (1 Samuel 30:11) 5. The threatening dissension and David's decision (1 Samuel 30:21) 6. The spoil sent to Judah (1 Samuel 30:26) The chastening hand of the Lord now rests heav

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 his followers. Apparently he had taken his whole force to Achish, leaving Ziklag without any adequate garrison. 1 SAMUEL 30:7. Encouraged by an oracle from Yahweh, David went in pursuit, probably southwards, overtook the raiders, annihilated them all but 400, and recovered the captives and the spoil. 1 SAMUEL 30:14. CHERETHITES: a tribe in the South or Negeb (_cf._ 1 Samuel 27:10), pr

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; Jonah 1:17; Matthew 12:40....

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)....