Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
1 Samuel 30:10
Four hundred men; a small number for such an attempt; but David was strong in faith, giving God the glory of his power and faithfulness.
Four hundred men; a small number for such an attempt; but David was strong in faith, giving God the glory of his power and faithfulness.
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
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...
_abode behind_ STAYED, as in 1 Samuel 30:9. The condensed expression of the last clause of 1 Samuel 30:9 is explained by 1 Samuel 30:10. _were so faint_ A verb found only here and in...
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)....
_David's Pursuit of His Enemies._ 1 Samuel 30:7-20 7 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....
_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....
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 th...
וַ יִּרְדֹּ֣ף דָּוִ֔ד ה֖וּא וְ אַרְבַּע ־מֵאֹ
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 h...
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...
CHAPTER XXX. _ Weary. Hebrew pigru, denotes those who are "lazy and dead." Septuagint, "some sat down on the other side of the torrent." Syriac and Arabic insinuate, to defend the passage. But why th...
(9) 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. (10) But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundre...
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...
BUT DAVID PURSUED, HE AND FOUR HUNDRED MEN,.... Not discouraged with being obliged to leave a third part of his little army behind; though it was doubtless a trial of his faith, with these to pursue a...
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. Ver. 10. _He and four hundred men._] For those six hundred w...
_Where those that were left behind stayed_ Those that were left to look after the stuff, 1 Samuel 30:24; who were so tired, that they were not able to march any further. _David pursued, he and four hu...
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...
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, the crossing of which seems to have been connected with great...
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,...
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 tenderne...
1 Samuel 30:10 David H1732 pursued H7291 (H8799) four H702 hundred H3967 men H376 hundred H3967 stayed H5975 ...
DAVID AND HIS MEN PURSUE THE AMALEKITES AND DESTROY THEM, RECOVERING ALL THAT THEY HAD LOST AND MORE IN ABUNDANCE (1 SAMUEL 30:7). The Amalekites, aware that any opposition to what they had done was s...
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 T
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 exte...
1 Samuel 14:20; 1 Samuel 14:31; 1 Samuel 30:21; Amos 6:14; Joshua 15:4
Four hundred — A small number for such an attempt: but David was strong in faith, giving God the glory of his power and faithfulness....