Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
1 Samuel 30:12
Three days and three nights - Indicating that at least so long a time had elapsed since the sack of Ziklag.
Three days and three nights - Indicating that at least so long a time had elapsed since the sack of Ziklag.
Verse 1 Samuel 30:12. _A CAKE OF FIGS_] See on 1 Samuel 25:18....
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...
SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS. Figure of speech _Idioma,_ by which. part of. day is reckoned as. whole day. See 2 Samuel 1:1; 2 Samuel 1:2, and compare Esther 4:16;...
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)....
_his spirit came again to him_ He revived. Cp. Judges 15:19....
AND THEY GAVE HIM A PIECE OF A CAKE OF FIGS, &C.— The eastern people are well known to carry with them in their journies several accommodations, and _provisions_ in particular of various kinds, for, p...
_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....
_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 NIG...
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...
THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS. — This was a note of time as to the amount of start the Amalekite leader with the plunder had. It may well be conceived there was no time to lose. The cruelty of the Amale...
וַ יִּתְּנוּ ־לֹו֩ פֶ֨לַח דְּבֵלָ֜ה וּ שְׁנֵ֤
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...
_Raisins. Hebrew tsimmukim. See chap. xxv. 18. (Calmet) --- The soldiers very prudently took some provisions with them, as they were going into a desert country. (Menochius)_...
(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...
AND THEY GAVE HIM A PIECE OF CAKE OF FIGS,.... That were dried and pressed together, and made into cakes: AND TWO CLUSTERS OF RAISINS; or dried grapes, as the Targum: AND WHEN HE HAD EATEN, HIS SPIR...
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 ni...
_Three days and nights_ One whole day, and part of two others, as appears from the next verse, where he says, _Three days ago I fell sick;_ but in the Hebrew it is, _This is the third day since I fell...
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...
and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, a slice of pressed figs, AND TWO CLUSTERS, pressed cakes, OF RAISINS; AND WHEN HE HAD EATEN, HIS SPIRIT CAME AGAIN TO HIM, he recovered, he was filled with...
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...
Which is to be understood synecdochically of one whole day, and part of two others, as the same phrase is taken MATTHEW 12:40, as appears from the next verse, where he saith, _three days agone I fell...
1 Samuel 30:12 gave H5414 (H8799) piece H6400 cake H1690 two H8147 raisins H6778 eaten H398 (H8799) strength...
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...
_And they found an Egyptian in the field._ CHRISTIAN BENEFICENCE The debasing influence of prosperity and success, and the humanising tendency of disaster and distress, were never more strikingly con...
_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 30:11 BREAD here may refer simply to bread, or it may be a general term for food. ⇐...
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 14:27; 1 Samuel 30:13; Esther 4:16; Isaiah 40:29; Jonah 1:17
Three days and nights — One whole day and part of two others, as appears from the next verse, where he saith, three days ago I fell sick, but in the Hebrew it is, this is the third day since I fell si...