_NOW IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THE DEATH OF SAUL, WHEN DAVID WAS RETURNED FROM THE SLAUGHTER OF THE AMALEKITES, AND DAVID HAD ABODE TWO DAYS IN ZIKLAG;_ David had abode two days in Ziklag. Though greatly reduced by the Amalekite incendiaries, that town was so completely sacked and destroyed, but David... [ Continue Reading ]
_IT CAME EVEN TO PASS ON THE THIRD DAY, THAT, BEHOLD, A MAN CAME OUT OF THE CAMP FROM SAUL WITH HIS CLOTHES RENT, AND EARTH UPON HIS HEAD: AND SO IT WAS, WHEN HE CAME TO DAVID, THAT HE FELL TO THE EARTH, AND DID OBEISANCE._ A man came out of the camp from Saul. Since the narrative of Saul's death,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SAID UNTO HIM, FROM WHENCE COMEST THOU? AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, OUT OF THE CAMP OF ISRAEL AM I ESCAPED._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO I STOOD UPON HIM, AND SLEW HIM, BECAUSE I WAS SURE THAT HE COULD NOT LIVE AFTER THAT HE WAS FALLEN: AND I TOOK THE CROWN THAT WAS UPON HIS HEAD, AND THE BRACELET THAT WAS ON HIS ARM, AND HAVE BROUGHT THEM HITHER UNTO MY LORD._ The crown - a small metallic cap or wreath, which encircled the temp... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN DAVID TOOK HOLD ON HIS CLOTHES, AND RENT THEM; AND LIKEWISE ALL THE MEN THAT WERE WITH HIM:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SAID UNTO THE YOUNG MAN THAT TOLD HIM, WHENCE ART THOU? AND HE ANSWERED, I AM THE SON OF A STRANGER, AN AMALEKITE._ Whence art thou? The man had at the outset stated who he was. But the question was now formally and judicially put.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SAID UNTO HIM, HOW WAST THOU NOT AFRAID TO STRETCH FORTH THINE HAND TO DESTROY THE LORD'S ANOINTED?_ How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lord's anointed? This phrase, "the Lord's anointed," was so much used by David, and perhaps his men also, that the neig... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID CALLED ONE OF THE YOUNG MEN, AND SAID, GO NEAR, AND FALL UPON HIM. AND HE SMOTE HIM THAT HE DIED._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SAID UNTO HIM, THY BLOOD BE UPON THY HEAD; FOR THY MOUTH HATH TESTIFIED AGAINST THEE, SAYING, I HAVE SLAIN THE LORD'S ANOINTED._ David said ... Thy blood, х_ DAAMªKAA_ (H1818), thy bloods] - i:e., blood-guiltiness. The punishment inflicted on the Amalekite may seem too severe, but the re... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID LAMENTED WITH THIS LAMENTATION OVER SAUL AND OVER JONATHAN HIS SON:_ David lamented with this lamentation. It has always been customary for Eastern people, on the death of great kings and warriors, to celebrate their qualities and deeds in funeral songs. This inimitable pathetic elegy, o... [ Continue Reading ]
_(ALSO HE BADE THEM TEACH THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH THE USE OF THE BOW: BEHOLD, IT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF JASHER.)_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE BEAUTY OF ISRAEL IS SLAIN UPON THY HIGH PLACES: HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN!_ The beauty of Israel - literally, the gazelle or antelope of Israel (cf. 2 Samuel 2:18; 1 Chronicles 12:8; Song of Solomon 2:7; Song of Solomon 3:5). In Eastern countries that animal is the chosen type of beauty and sy... [ Continue Reading ]
_TELL IT NOT IN GATH, PUBLISH IT NOT IN THE STREETS OF ASKELON; LEST THE DAUGHTERS OF THE PHILISTINES REJOICE, LEST THE DAUGHTERS OF THE UNCIRCUMCISED TRIUMPH._ Tell it not in Gath ... In David's time Gath was one of the principal towns in the Philistine territory, ranking, in point of population,... [ Continue Reading ]
_YE MOUNTAINS OF GILBOA, LET THERE BE NO DEW, NEITHER LET THERE BE RAIN, UPON YOU, NOR FIELDS OF OFFERINGS: FOR THERE THE SHIELD OF THE MIGHTY IS VILELY CAST AWAY, THE SHIELD OF SAUL, AS THOUGH HE HAD NOT BEEN ANOINTED WITH OIL._ Ye mountains of Gilboa, х_ HAAREEY_ (H2022) _ BA-GILBOA`_ (H1533)]. G... [ Continue Reading ]
_FROM THE BLOOD OF THE SLAIN, FROM THE FAT OF THE MIGHTY, THE BOW OF JONATHAN TURNED NOT BACK, AND THE SWORD OF SAUL RETURNED NOT EMPTY._ From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, х_ GIBOWRIYM_ (H1368)]. Some think that this term was intended to describe the gigantic size of the Phil... [ Continue Reading ]
_SAUL AND JONATHAN WERE LOVELY AND PLEASANT IN THEIR LIVES, AND IN THEIR DEATH THEY WERE NOT DIVIDED: THEY WERE SWIFTER THAN EAGLES, THEY WERE STRONGER THAN LIONS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_YE DAUGHTERS OF ISRAEL, WEEP OVER SAUL, WHO CLOTHED YOU IN SCARLET, WITH OTHER DELIGHTS, WHO PUT ON ORNAMENTS OF GOLD UPON YOUR APPAREL._ Ye daughters of Israel. The reference is to the bands of young women, belonging to the cities of Israel, who flocked in great numbers to meet the general and hi... [ Continue Reading ]