1Sa 30:1, 13, 17 | TSK | STEP | The Amalekites spoil Ziklag. David asking counsel, is encouraged by God to pursue them. By the means of a revived Egyptian he is brought to the enemies, and recovers all the spoil. David's law to divide the spoil equally between them that fight and them that keep the stuff. He sends presents to his friends. were come. on the third.This was the third day after he had left the Philistine army at Aphek, from which place, Calmet supposes, Ziklag was distant more than thirty leagues. the Amalekites.

1 Samuel 30:1

1 The Amalekites spoil Ziklag.

4 David asking counsel, is encouraged by God to pursue them.

11 By the means of a revived Egyptian he is brought to the enemies, and recovers all the spoil.

22 David's law to divide the spoil equally between them that fight and them that keep the stuff.

26 He sends presents to his friends.

were come.

on the third.This was the third day after he had left the Philistine army at Aphek, from which place, Calmet supposes, Ziklag was distant more than thirty leagues.

the Amalekites.

15:7; 27:8-10; Ge 24:62; Jos 11:6

1 Samuel 30:13

my master.Though they had booty enough, and this poor sick slave might have been carried on an ass or a camel, yet they inhumanely left him to perish; but, in the righteous providence of God, this cruelty was the occasion of their destruction; whilst David's kindness to a perishing stranger and slave was the means of his success, and proved the truest policy.

Job 31:13-15; Pr 12:10; Jas 2:13

1 Samuel 30:17

the next day. Heb. their morrow. and there.

11:11; Jud 4:16; 1Ki 20:29,30; Ps 18:42