1 Samuel 30:17 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 30:17

And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.

BSB

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ASV

And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, who rode upon camels and fled.

KJV

And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.

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Commentary

4 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 36 (604)

The poor and the feeble, the blind and the lame, are called and come because the weak and the despised in this world are often quicker to hear the voice of God, as in this world they have nothing to delight them.The Egyptian servant of the Amalekites is a good example of this. When the Amalekites were plundering and moving about, he was left behind on the road sick and fainting from hunger and thirst.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Twilight - The word signifies both the morning and evening twilight. But the latter seems here intended, partly because their eating, and drinking, and dancing, was more proper work for the evening, than the morning; and partly, because the evening was more convenient for David, that the fewness of his forces might not be discovered by the day-light.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Thus is the triumphing of the wicked short, and wrath comes on them, as on Belshazzar, when they are in the midst of their jollity. The spoil was recovered and brought off, and nothing was lost, but a great deal gotten.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

There escaped not a man of them - It is well known to every careful reader of the Bible, that the Amalekites were a proscribed people, even by God himself, and that in extirpating them it has been supposed David fulfilled the express will of God. But all this depends on whether he had an express commission to do so, received from God himself, as Saul had.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּכֵּ֥ם	vai.ya.Kem	and he struck down them	H5221 →
דָּוִ֛ד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
מֵהַנֶּ֥שֶׁף	me.ha.Ne.shef	from the twilight	H5399 →
וְעַד־	ve.'ad-	and until	H5704 →
הָעֶ֖רֶב	ha.'E.rev	the evening	H6153 →
לְמָֽחֳרָתָ֑ם	le.mo.cho.ra.Tam	of next day their	H4283 →
וְלֹֽא־	ve.lo'-	and not	H3808 →
נִמְלַ֤ט	nim.Lat	he escaped	H4422 →
מֵהֶם֙	me.Hem	of <the> them
אִ֔ישׁ	'Ish	anyone	H376 →
כִּי֩	ki	that	H3588 →
אִם־	'im-	except	H518 →
אַרְבַּ֨ע	'ar.Ba'	four	H702 →
מֵא֧וֹת	me.'ot	hundred<s>	H3967 →
אִֽישׁ־	'ish-	man	H376 →
נַ֛עַר	Na.'ar	young man	H5288 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	who	H834 →
רָכְב֥וּ	ra.khe.Vu	they rode	H7392 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
הַגְּמַלִּ֖ים	ha.ge.ma.Lim	the camels	H1581 →
וַיָּנֻֽסוּ׃	vai.ya.Nu.su	and they fled	H5127 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Samuel 11:11
The next day Saul organized the troops into three divisions, and during the morning watch they invaded the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them, until the hottest part of the day. And the…
leads to
- James 2:13
  For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Judges 7:16
  And he divided the three hundred men into three companies and gave each man a ram’s horn in one hand and a large jar in the other, containing a torch.
Through
1 Samuel 15:3
Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 20:16–18
  However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
- Numbers 24:20
  Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”
- Isaiah 14:21–22
  Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.
- 1 Samuel 22:19
  He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.
- Numbers 31:17
  So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man,
Through
Psalms 18:42
I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.
leads to
- Isaiah 10:6
  I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the…

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