And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite ; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.
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Gill's Exposition
And David said unto him, to whom belongest thou?.... To what country or people? and to whom among them?
and whence art thou? of what nation? where wast thou born? what countryman art thou? for his…
Adam Clarke
My master left me, because three days agone I fell sick - This was very inhuman: though they had booty enough, and no doubt asses sufficient to carry the invalids, yet they left this poor man to…
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…
Cambridge Bible
To whom belongest thou His appearance shewed that he was a slave.
servant Slave: captured in some Amalekite foray.
three days agone So that more than three days had elapsed since the sack of Ziklag,…