And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented , gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
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Gill's Exposition
And everyone that was in distress,.... In straitened circumstances, through the oppression of men, through poverty, and afflictive providences in their families:
and everyone that was in debt; and…
Barnes' Notes
Discontented - See the margin. (Compare 1Sa 30:6; 2Sa 17:8.) The phrase here denotes those who were exasperated by Saul’s tyranny.
Adam Clarke
And every one that was in distress - debt - discontented - It is very possible that these several disaffected and exceptionable characters might at first have supposed that David, unjustly persecuted,…
Here, I. David shelters himself in the cave of Adullam, Sa1 22:1. Whether it was a natural or artificial fastness does not appear; it is probable that the access to it was so difficult that David…
Cambridge Bible
And every one, &c. To the cave of Adullam resorted some who were smarting under the oppression of Saul's tyranny; some who were involved in debt through the neglect of the laws concerning usury (Exo…
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