Verse 1 Samuel 30:14. _UPON THE SOUTH OF THE CHERETHITES_] Calmet and others maintain, that the כרתי _kerethi_, which, without the points, might be read _Creti_, were not only at this time _Philistin...
THE CHERETHITES - Here used as synonymous with Philistines 1 Samuel 30:16. In David’s reign the body-guard commanded by Benaiah consisted of Cherethites and Pelethites (Philistines?) and a picked corp...
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...
CHERETHITES. Probably. clan of Php 30:16....
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)....
_the Cherethites_ Evidently a tribe of Philistines living on the southern border of Philistia, as the spoil is said in 1 Samuel 30:16 to have been taken "out of the land of the Philistines." Cp. 2 Sam...
UPON THE SOUTH OF THE CHERETHITES— It is plain, from this relation, that the Cherethites were Philistines, see 1 Samuel 30:16 and that the Amalekites were enemies to the Philistines; and therefore, ho...
_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....
_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 Philisti...
30:14 south (a-7) south (a-20) See ch. 27.10....
THE CHERETHITES] Cherethite is used with Pelethite, perhaps another name for Philistine: see 1 Samuel 30:16 and Zephaniah 2:5. It is very possibly connected with Crete, the country from which the Phil...
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...
WE MADE AN INVASION.... — The Egyptian, who apparently was a man of education, accurately describes to David the nature and scope of the Amalekite raid, which had closed with so signal a disaster to t...
אֲנַ֡חְנוּ פָּשַׁ֜טְנוּ נֶ֧גֶב הַ כְּרֵתִ֛י וְ...
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...
_Cerethi, denotes the Philistines, (R. David. See ver. 16.; Haydock) who came originally from Crete, 2 Kings xv. 18., and Ezechiel xxv. 16. (Calmet) --- They might be natives of some province of the P...
(11) 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; (12) And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clu...
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...
WE MADE AN INVASION [UPON] THE SOUTH OF THE CHERETHITES,.... The Philistines so called, or at least one nation of them, such that dwelt to the south of the land, 1 Samuel 30:16; Zephaniah 2:5; AND U...
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. Ver. 14. _Upon the south of the...
_Upon the south of the Cherethites_ That is, _of the Philistines;_ for it is explained, 1 Samuel 30:16, to have been _the land of the Philistines._ Hence it appears that the Amalekites were enemies to...
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...
We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, a Philistine tribe of the south country, AND UPON THE COAST WHICH BELONGETH TO JUDAH, AND UPON THE SOUTH OF CALEB, the neighborhood of Hebron; AN...
DAVID RECOVERS 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,...
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...
THE CHERETHITES, i.e. the Philistines, as is manifest from 1 SAMUEL 30:16, who are so called ZEPHANIAH 2:5. AND UPON THE COAST WHICH BELONGETH TO JUDAH, AND UPON THE SOUTH OF CALEB: this is added by w...
1 Samuel 30:14 invasion H6584 (H8804) southern H5045 Cherethites H3774 Judah H3063 southern H5045 Caleb H3612 burned...
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 Chronicles 18:17; 1 Kings 1:38; 1 Kings 1:44; 1 Samuel 30:1;...
Cherethites — That is, the Philistines. Caleb — This is added by way of explication: that part of the south of Judah which belongs to Caleb's posterity....