Darby's translation notes (1890)
1 Samuel 30:27
30:27 Ramoth, (b-10) Or 'Ramoth-Negeb.' see Joshua 19:8 .
30:27 Ramoth, (b-10) Or 'Ramoth-Negeb.' see Joshua 19:8 .
Verse 1 Samuel 30:27. _TO_ THEM _WHICH_ WERE _IN BETH-EL_] This was in the tribe of Ephraim. _SOUTH RAMOTH_] So called to distinguish it from _Ramoth Gilead_, beyond Jordan. This _Ramoth_ belonged t...
BETHEL - i. e. Bethuel 1 Chronicles 4:30, quite in the south near Beer-sheba, Hormah, and Ziklag; or Bethul Joshua 19:4, one of the cities of the Simeonites. SOUTH RAMOTH - Rather, “Ramoth of the Sout...
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...
The presents sent to the elders of Judah 26. _he sent of the spoil_, &c. In gratitude for the assistance he had received from them during his wanderings, and to secure their good will when Saul's dea...
_Bethel_ Not the well known Bethel in the tribe of Benjamin, but _Bethul_or _Bethuel_, called also _Chesil_, a city in the neighbourhood of Ziklag and Hormah, originally assigned to Judah, and subsequ...
_David's Goodwill Toward Judah._ 1 Samuel 30:21-31 21 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:...
_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 p...
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...
BETHEL... SOUTH RAMOTH... YATTIR. — Here follows an enumeration of the cities of Judah to whom David sent, most of which have been identified. Bethel — evidently not the well known place of that name,...
לַ אֲשֶׁ֧ר בְּ בֵֽית־אֵ֛ל וְ לַ אֲשֶׁ֥ר
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...
SHARING THE SPOIL 1 Samuel 30:16 He that lays hold on God's strength will be courteous in his behavior to the weak and weary, and will not quail before the clamor of men of Belial. Thus we are not su...
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...
_Bethel, "the house of God," as the priests had afforded him protection. (Haydock) --- It is not certain whether he speaks of a town of Ephraim, or of the cities where the ark and the tabernacle were...
(26) 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; (27) To them which wer...
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...
TO [THEM] WHICH [WERE] IN BETHEL,.... One part of the spoil was sent to them; not to those in Bethel, in the tribe of Benjamin, but in Kirjathjearim, called Bethel, or the house of God, because the ar...
To [them] which [were] in Bethel, and to [them] which [were] in south Ramoth, and to [them] which [were] in Jattir, Ver. 27. _To them which were in Bethel._] Or, At God's house, _i.e., _ at Kirjathje...
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...
to them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in South Ramoth, the city of this name in the south country, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN JATTIR,...
THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPOIL...
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,...
21-31 What God gives us, he designs we should do good with. In distributing the spoil, David was just and kind. Those are men of Belial indeed, who delight in putting hardships upon their brethren, an...
BETH-EL, in Kirjath-jearim, where the ark was, 1 SAMUEL 10:3. SOUTH RAMOTH; a city in the tribe of Simeon, JOSHUA 19:8; so called by way of distinction from Ramoth in Gilead, which was more northward,...
1 Samuel 30:27 those H834 Bethel H1008 Ramoth H7418 South H5045 Jattir H3492 Bethel - Genesis 28:19;...
DAVID DECLARES THAT ALL MUST SHARE THE CREDIT FOR THE VICTORY, BOTH THOSE WHO FOUGHT AND THOSE WHO GUARDED THE BAGGAGE, BECAUSE THE VICTORY WAS YHWH'S (1 SAMUEL 30:21). David's concern for all his men...
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...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 30:26 DAVID generously distributes the spoils of victory to all who sided with him. He even gives gifts to others who will soon be his subjects. HEBRON was the major city in...
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 Kings 12:29; Genesis 28:19; Joshua 15:48; Joshua 16:2; Joshua 19:4;...