And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him (f) bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;
(f) God by his providence both provides for the needs of the poor stranger, and made him a guide to David to accomplish his enterprise.
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...
_bread_ FOOD: what it was is specified in the next verse: a piece of fig-cake and two lumps of raisins. See on 1 Samuel 25:18. The Sept. (B) omits the raisins....
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)....
AND THEY FOUND AN EGYPTIAN, &C.— Surely the leaving such a slave, sick with fatigue in his master's service in an enemy's country, utterly destitute of all the necessaries of life in the midst of unpu...
_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 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;_ They found an Egyptian ......
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...
AN EGYPTIAN. — The Amalekites, as above stated, were a nomad race; their wanderings would have taken them to the frontiers of Egypt, hence the probability of their having Egyptian slaves in their trib...
וַֽ יִּמְצְא֤וּ אִישׁ ־מִצְרִי֙ בַּ † שָּׂדֶ֔ה...
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...
(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 FOUND AN EGYPTIAN IN THE FIELD,.... As they passed along, lying there, having been sick, and was half starved, almost dead: AND BROUGHT HIM TO DAVID; to know what was to be done with him; be...
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; Ver. 11. _And they found an Egyptian in the field._] Cast off, si...
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...
DAVID RECOVERS THE SPOIL...
And they, the men with David, FOUND AN EGYPTIAN IN THE FIELD, for the Amalekites could easily obtain Egyptian slaves, AND BROUGHT HIM TO DAVID, AND GAVE HIM BREAD, AND HE DID EAT; AND THEY MADE HIM DR...
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...
THEY FOUND AN EGYPTIAN, whom by his habit they guessed to be a soldier that had been engaged in that expedition. THEY MADE HIM DRINK WATER; partly out of humanity and compassion to a perishing creatur...
1 Samuel 30:11 found H4672 (H8799) Egyptian H376 H4713 field H7704 brought H3947 (H8799) David H1732 gave...
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...
Deuteronomy 15:7; Deuteronomy 23:7; Luke 10:36; Luke 10:37; Ma