2 Samuel 1:13 BSB — MannaFest

2 Samuel 1:13

And David inquired of the young man who had brought him the report, “Where are you from?” “I am the son of a foreigner,” he answered. “I am an Amalekite.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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 1Sa 25:13, 1Sa 25:32-34.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

That nation, and all that belonged to it, were doomed to destruction, so that, in slaying him, David did what his predecessor should have done and was rejected for not doing. (2.) He did himself confess the crime, so that the evidence was, by the consent of all laws, sufficient to convict him; for every man is presumed to make the best of himself.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

In present circumstances it was especially important that his principle should be publicly known; and to free himself from the imputation of being in any way accessory to the execrable crime of regicide was the part of a righteous judge, no less than of a good politician.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
דָּוִ֗ד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הַנַּ֙עַר֙	ha.Na.'ar	the young man	H5288 →
הַמַּגִּ֣יד	ha.ma.Gid	who had told	H5046 →
ל֔וֹ	lo	to <the> him
אֵ֥י	'ei	where?	H335 →
מִזֶּ֖ה	mi.Zeh	from this	H2088 →
אָ֑תָּה	'A.tah	[are] you	H859 →
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
בֶּן־	ben-	[am the] son of	H1121 →
אִ֛ישׁ	'ish	a man	H376 →
גֵּ֥ר	ger	a sojourner	H1616 →
עֲמָלֵקִ֖י	'a.mal.Ki	an Amalekite	H6003 →
אָנֹֽכִי׃	'a.No.khi	I	H595 →

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The walk

The walk5

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
2 Samuel 1:8
‘Who are you?’ he asked. So I told him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
leads to
- 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.
- 1 Samuel 30:13
  Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” “I am an Egyptian,” he replied, “the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago when I…
- 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…
- 1 Samuel 30:1
  On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.
- 1 Samuel 27:8
  Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)