What does 1 Samuel 30:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep."
Verse 1 Samuel 30:4. _WEPT, UNTIL THEY HAD NO MORE POWER TO WEEP._] This marks great distress; they wept, as says the Vulgate, till their tears failed them....
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 an...
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...
_wept_ See on 1 Samuel 11:4....
David's Return to Ziklag, 1 Samuel 30:1-31. _David's Camp Looted._ 1 Samuel 30:1-6 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded t...
_THEN DAVID AND THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE AND WEPT, UNTIL THEY HAD NO MORE POWER TO WEEP._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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 the...
THEN DAVID AND THE PEOPLE. — 1 Samuel 30:1 form one period, which is expanded by the introduction of several circumstantial clauses. The apodosis to “it came to pass when,” &c., 1 Samuel 30:1, does no...
וַ יִּשָּׂ֨א דָוִ֜ד וְ הָ עָ֧ם אֲשֶׁר ־אִתֹּ֛ו אֶת ־קֹולָ֖ם וַ יִּבְכּ֑וּ עַ֣ד אֲשֶׁ֧ר...
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...
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...
_Tears. Hebrew, "till they had no more power to weep." (Menochius) --- See Lamentations ii. 11. Cicero exclaims, Hei mihi! consumptis enim lachrymis, infixus tamen hæret in corde dolor. (Phil. ii.)_...
(4) Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep. (5) And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abig...
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...
THEN DAVID AND THE PEOPLE THAT [WERE] WITH HIM LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE,.... In doleful shrieks, and loud lamentations: AND WEPT, UNTIL THEY HAD NO MORE POWER TO WEEP; till nature was quite exhausted, a...
Then David and the people that [were] with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep. Ver. 4. _Lifted up their voice, and wept._] Wept their utmost. They held not that...
_David and his people lift up their voice and wept_ As was natural, they thus gave way to the first transports of their grief on this sad sight. “It is no disparagement,” says Henry, “to the boldest,...
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...
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,...
1-6 When we go abroad in the way of our duty, we may comfortably hope that God will take care of our families in our absence, but not otherwise. If, when we come off a journey, we find our abode in p...
Till either the humour was wholly spent, or the consideration of their calamity had made them stupid....
1 Samuel 30:4 David H1732 people H5971 up H5375 (H8799) voices H6963 wept H1058 (H8799) power H3581 weep H1058 (H8800) lifted up - 1 Samuel 4:13, 1 Samuel 11:4; Genesis 37:33-35;...
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 THE AMALEKITES (1 Samuel 30:1). 1 SAMUEL 30:1 ON THE THIRD DAY. David evidently c...
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 ext...
1 Samuel 11:4; 1 Samuel 4:13; Ezra 10:1; Genesis 37:33; Judges 2:4; Judges 21:2; Numbers 14:1; Numbers 14:39...
Wept — It is no disparagement to the boldest, bravest spirits, to lament the calamities of friends or relations....