Whether David believed the Amalekite’s story, or not, his anger was equally excited, and the fact that the young man was an Amalekite, was not calculated to calm or check it. That David’s temper was hasty, we know from 1 Samuel 25:13, 1 Samuel 25:32.
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. DAVID KING OF JUDAH AND THE EVENTS OF HIS REIGN 1. David's Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The Death of Saul and Jonathan announced to David (2 Samuel...
DAVID RECEIVES THE NEWS OF SAUL'S DEATH. The account of the death of Saul told by the fugitive here is different from that in 1 Samuel 31. A common explanation is that the fugitive falsely represented...
_the son of a stranger, an Amalekite_ Or, _the son of an Amalekite stranger_, i.e. an Amalekite who had migrated into the land of Israel. The term is one regularly used in the O.T. of foreigners resid...
_David's punishment of the Amalekite._ 2 Samuel 1:13-16 13 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. 14 And Davi...
_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 qu...
THE LAMENT OF DAVID OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN 1. There is no break between the two books of Samuel; they really form one continuous narrative. This v. is a continuation of 1 Samuel 30, which describes D...
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF 2 SAMUEL The book of 2 Samuel records the life of David as king. There are several accounts of events in 2 Samuel that ar...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר דָּוִ֗ד אֶל ־הַ נַּ֨עַר֙ הַ
CHAPTER I. _ DAVD'S LAMENT FOR SAUL AND JONATHAN._ 2 Samuel 1:1. DAVID had returned to Ziklag from the slaughter of the Amalekites only two days before he heard of the death of Saul. He had returned...
TOUCH NOT MINE ANOINTED 2 Samuel 1:1 The scene changes from Gilboa to Ziklag, whither the tidings were carried by an Amalekite. It is remarkable to notice how David received them. Though he had spent...
The second Book of Samuel deals largely with the story of David, and presents the picture of the theocratic monarchy. The first movement records the progress of David to the position which God had app...
(e) 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. (e) After the lamentation, he examined him again....
CHAPTER I. _ Stranger, residing among the Hebrews._...
(13) 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. (14) And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch fort...
We have seen the sorrowful circumstances out of which arose the first desire to have a king in Israel, and the remarkable fact that, although it was a sin, God nevertheless did not put the people back...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. Nevertheless piety, and pious (and hence generous) sentiments, were genuine in David. He did not pretend to feel for Saul's misfortunes, and then sei...
AND DAVID SAID UNTO THE YOUNG MAN THAT TOLD HIM, WHENCE [ART] THOU?.... From what place, or of what people and nation art thou? though Abarbinel thinks it neither respects place nor people, but that D...
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. Ver. 13. _I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite._] This he had said...
_The son of a stranger_ This expression signifies one who resided among the Israelites, and had embraced their religion, though not admitted into their communion. _David said, How wast thou not afraid...
[DAUID HEARETH OF SAULS DEATH.] 1 The Amalekite, who brought tidings of the ouerthrow, and accused himselfe of Sauls death, is slaine. 17 Dauid lamenteth Saul and Ionathan with a song. 1 NOW it cam...
THE MESSAGE OF THE AMALEKITE...
And David said unto the young man that told him, who had distorted the facts and lied in order to gain the favor of David, as though he had killed a dangerous enemy, WHENCE ART THOU? AND HE ANSWERED,...
Verse 1 shows us that David's slaughter of the Amalekites took place at about the same time as the Philistine defeat of Israel. David had been two days at Ziklag when a man came from the scene of this...
11-16 David was sincere in his mourning for Saul; and all with him humbled themselves under the hand of God, laid so heavily upon Israel by this defeat. The man who brought the tidings, David put to...
WHENCE ART THOU? David heard and knew before what he was, but he asked it again judicially, in order to his trial and punishment....
2 Samuel 1:13 David H1732 said H559 (H8799) man H5288 told H5046 (H8688) answered H559 (H8799) son...
THE THOROUGH DEFEAT OF ISRAEL AND THE DEATH OF SAUL (1 SAMUEL 31:1 -2 SAMUEL 1:27). Having initially demonstrated how God's purposes are moving forward in David, the writer now describes the humiliati...
THE TIDINGS CONCERNING THE DEATH OF SAUL ARE BROUGHT TO DAVID (2 SAMUEL 1:1). The theme of the death of Saul continues with a description of how the news was brought to David. It came by means of an A...
CONTENTS: David mourns the death of Saul and Jonathan. CHARACTERS: God, David, Saul, Jonathan, an Amalekite. CONCLUSION: He that is deeply concerned for the honor of God cannot rejoice in the afflic...
2 Samuel 1:6. _Mount Gilboa,_ two miles from mount Tabor. The battle was fought near the place where Barak fought with Sisera. 2 Samuel 1:10. _The crown and the bracelet._ A true mercenary soldier. He...
_A man came out of the camp._ THE MAN WHO PROFESSED TO HAVE SLAIN SAUL On the day that Saul fell by his own hand, and before his body had been discovered by the Philistines, an Amalekite, passing by,...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 1:1 Story of King David. Most of 2 Samuel 1:1 tells of David’s rise to kingship, first over Judah and then over all Israel. Most of the problems D
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES.— 2 Samuel 1:6. “THE CHARIOTS AND HORSEMEN.” It has been remarked that it is extremely unlikely that chariots and horsemen, pursued the Israelites on to the mountains, a...
EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 1:1 NOW IT CAME TO PASS. During the last few days events had been crowding fast upon one another. Living as fugitives at Ziklag, in the land of the Philistines, David and his men,...
Second Samuel, chapter one. First Samuel dealt with the reign of King Saul over Israel, and it ends with the death of Saul at the hands of the Philistines. Saul, the tragic story of a man who had many...