_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN DAVID AND HIS MEN WERE COME TO ZIKLAG ON THE THIRD DAY, THAT THE AMALEKITES HAD INVADED THE SOUTH, AND ZIKLAG, AND SMITTEN ZIKLAG, AND BURNED IT WITH FIRE;_ The Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag. While the strength of the Philistine forces was poured out of the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HAD TAKEN THE WOMEN CAPTIVES, THAT WERE THEREIN: THEY SLEW NOT ANY, EITHER GREAT OR SMALL, BUT CARRIED THEM AWAY, AND WENT ON THEIR WAY._ Slew not any ... but carried them away. Their conduct seems to stand in favourable contrast to that of David (1 Samuel 27:11). But their apparent clemency d... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO DAVID AND HIS MEN CAME TO THE CITY, AND, BEHOLD, IT WAS BURNED WITH FIRE; AND THEIR WIVES, AND THEIR SONS, AND THEIR DAUGHTERS, WERE TAKEN CAPTIVES._ Came to the city, and, behold, it was burnt with fire. The language implies that the smoke of the conflagration was still visible, and the sackin... [ Continue Reading ]
_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.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID WAS GREATLY DISTRESSED; FOR THE PEOPLE SPAKE OF STONING HIM, BECAUSE THE SOUL OF ALL THE PEOPLE WAS GRIEVED, EVERY MAN FOR HIS SONS AND FOR HIS DAUGHTERS: BUT DAVID ENCOURAGED HIMSELF IN THE LORD HIS GOD._ David was greatly distressed. He had reason, not only on his own personal account ... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Came to the brook Besor - supposed to be Wady Sheriah, the deep bed of a winter torrent, which is distantly traceable from the adjoining heights, in its sinuous cou... [ Continue Reading ]
_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.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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;_ They found an Egyptian ...... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 Ori... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SAID UNTO HIM, TO WHOM BELONGEST THOU? AND WHENCE ART THOU? AND HE SAID, I AM A YOUNG MAN OF EGYPT, SERVANT TO AN AMALEKITE; AND MY MASTER LEFT ME, BECAUSE THREE DAYS AGONE I FELL SICK._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WE MADE AN INVASION UPON THE SOUTH OF THE CHERETHITES, AND UPON THE COAST WHICH BELONGETH TO JUDAH, AND UPON THE SOUTH OF CALEB; AND WE BURNED ZIKLAG WITH FIRE._ The Cherethites - i:e., the Philistines (Ezekiel 25:16; Zephaniah 2:5).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SAID TO HIM, CANST THOU BRING ME DOWN TO THIS COMPANY? AND HE SAID, SWEAR UNTO ME BY GOD, THAT THOU WILT NEITHER KILL ME, NOR DELIVER ME INTO THE HANDS OF MY MASTER, AND I WILL BRING THEE DOWN TO THIS COMPANY._ David said ... Canst thou bring me down to this company? The Hebrews were led... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN HE HAD BROUGHT HIM DOWN, BEHOLD, THEY WERE SPREAD ABROAD UPON ALL THE EARTH, EATING AND DRINKING, AND DANCING, BECAUSE OF ALL THE GREAT SPOIL THAT THEY HAD TAKEN OUT OF THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES, AND OUT OF THE LAND OF JUDAH._ They were spread abroad upon all the earth. Believing that D... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SMOTE THEM FROM THE TWILIGHT EVEN UNTO THE EVENING OF THE NEXT DAY: AND THERE ESCAPED NOT A MAN OF THEM, SAVE FOUR HUNDRED YOUNG MEN, WHICH RODE UPON CAMELS, AND FLED._ There escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled - rather dromedaries (se... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID RECOVERED ALL THAT THE AMALEKITES HAD CARRIED AWAY: AND DAVID RESCUED HIS TWO WIVES._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID CAME TO THE TWO HUNDRED MEN, WHICH WERE SO FAINT THAT THEY COULD NOT FOLLOW DAVID, WHOM THEY HAD MADE ALSO TO ABIDE AT THE BROOK BESOR: AND THEY WENT FORTH TO MEET DAVID, AND TO MEET THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM: AND WHEN DAVID CAME NEAR TO THE PEOPLE, HE SALUTED THEM._ David came to th... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN ANSWERED ALL THE WICKED MEN AND MEN OF BELIAL, OF THOSE THAT WENT WITH DAVID, AND SAID, BECAUSE THEY WENT NOT WITH US, WE WILL NOT GIVE THEM OUGHT OF THE SPOIL THAT WE HAVE RECOVERED, SAVE TO EVERY MAN HIS WIFE AND HIS CHILDREN, THAT THEY MAY LEAD THEM AWAY, AND DEPART._ No JFB commentary on... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN DAVID CAME TO ZIKLAG, HE SENT OF THE SPOIL UNTO THE ELDERS OF JUDAH, EVEN TO HIS FRIENDS, SAYING, BEHOLD A PRESENT FOR YOU OF THE SPOIL OF THE ENEMIES OF THE LORD;_ When David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah - i:e., as appears from the following list of the p... [ Continue Reading ]
_TO THEM WHICH WERE IN BETHEL, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN SOUTH RAMOTH, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN JATTIR,_ To them which were in Beth-el - called sometimes Bethul, and Chesil; a town in the southern part of Judah (see the note at Joshua 12:16; Joshua 15:30; Joshua 19:4: cf. Joshua 19:1 Chr. 5:29-30)... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN AROER, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN SIPHMOTH, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN ESHTEMOA,_ Aroer - the modern 'Ar'ar'ah, situated somewhere in Wady Ar'ar'ah, which was not far from Beer-sheba. SIPHMOTH - not identified. ESHTEMOA - now Semu'a (see the note at Joshua 15:50; Joshua... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN RACHAL, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN THE CITIES OF THE JERAHMEELITES, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN THE CITIES OF THE KENITES,_ Rachal - not identified. THE CITIES OF THE JERAHMEELITES - (see the note at 1 Samuel 27:10.) KENITES - (see the note at 1 Samuel 27:10.)... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN HORMAH, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN CHORASHAN, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN ATHACH,_ Hormah - or Zephath (see the note at 1 Samuel 15:30). CHOR-ASHAN - not identified. ATHACH - unknown.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN HEBRON, AND TO ALL THE PLACES WHERE DAVID HIMSELF AND HIS MEN WERE WONT TO HAUNT._ Hebron - (see the note at Genesis 13:18; Genesis 14:15; Genesis 23:19; Joshua 21:11.)... [ Continue Reading ]