1 Samuel 30:11
And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And they found an Egyptian in the field,.... As they passed along, lying there, having been sick, and was half starved, almost dead:
and brought him to David; to know what was to be done with him;…
Solomon observes that the righteous is delivered out of trouble and the wicked cometh in his stead, that the just falleth seven times a-day and riseth again; so it was with David. Many were his…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
bread Food: what it was is specified in the next verse: a piece of fig-cake and two lumps of raisins. See on 1Sa 25:18. The Sept. (B) omits the raisins.
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