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1 Samuel 30:9

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So David and his six hundred men went to the Brook of Besor, where some stayed behind

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.

KJV

So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.

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This verse in 1 Samuel 30

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him,.... Encouraged by the oracle of the Lord: and came to the brook Besor; which Adrichomius (q) places in the tribe of Simeon; it is thought to be near Gaza.

This site's exposition

came to the brook Besor

on 1 Samuel 30:9-10

Two hundred of the six hundred are too spent to cross the brook and stay with the baggage, a detail the narrator keeps for its own sake, since the men left behind will matter again at verse twenty-one. David presses on with four hundred, the same number who first gathered to him in the cave of Adullam, an army built from the discontented now doing the discontented's work.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Bede

Commentary on Samuel · Written before 735.

proposed

David himself therefore went, and six hundred men who were with him, etc. The Brook Besor, which is interpreted as announcement or flesh, or the carnal sense of heretics difficult to correct, or signifies the redundancy of secular eloquence, and equally rapid and violent in …

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The brook Besor - This had its source in the mountain of Idumea, and fell into the Mediterranean Sea beyond Gaza. Some suppose it to have been the same with the river of the wilderness, or the river of Egypt. The sense of this and the following verse is, that when they came to the brook Besor, there were found two hundred out of his six hundred men so spent with fatigue that they could proceed no farther. The baggage or stuff was left there, 1Sa 30:24, and they were appointed to guard it.
Besor - Thought to be the stream of the Wady Sheriah which enters the sea a little south of Gaza.

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֵּ֣לֶךְand he went

    vaiyelekhH1980 →1546 times

  • דָּוִ֗דDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • ה֚וּאhe

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • וְשֵׁשׁ־and six

    veshesh-H8337 →216 times

  • מֵא֥וֹתhundred<s>

    meotH3967 →581 times

  • אִישׁ֙man

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwho

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • אִתּ֔וֹ[were] with him

    ʾitoH854 →929 times

  • וַיָּבֹ֖אוּand they came

    vaiyavouH935 →2568 times

  • עַד־to

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • נַ֣חַל[the] wadi of

    nachalH5158 →141 times

  • הַבְּשׂ֑וֹר<the> Besor

    habesorH1308 →3 times

  • וְהַנּֽוֹתָרִ֖יםand those [who] were left behind

    vehanotarimH3498 →106 times

  • עָמָֽדוּ׃they remained

    ʾamaduH5975 →521 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

4 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 27:2

    So David set out with his six hundred men and went to Achish son of Maoch, the king of Gath.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 25:13

      And David said to his men, “Strap on your swords!” So David and all his men put on their swords, and about four hundred men followed David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

    • 1 Samuel 21:10

      That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.

    • 1 Samuel 30:8

      and David inquired of the LORD: “Should I pursue these raiders? Will I overtake them?” “Pursue them,” the LORD replied, “for you will surely overtake them and rescue the captives.”

    • 1 Kings 2:39–40

      After three years, however, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath. And Shimei was told, “Look, your slaves are in Gath.”

About 1 Samuel

David Slays Goliath, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
David Slays Goliath, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Commentary on Samuel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Books of Samuel and W. G. Blaikie, The First Book of Samuel (Expositor's Bible).

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