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1 Samuel 30:4

1 Samuel 30:4
Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice,.... In doleful shrieks, and loud lamentations:

and wept, until they had no more power to weep; till nature was quite exhausted,…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Wept, until they had no more power to weep - This marks great distress; they wept, as says the Vulgate, till their tears failed them.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 Samuel 30:1-6

Here we have, I. The descent which the Amalekites made upon Ziklag in David's absence, and the desolations they made there. They surprised the city when it was left unguarded, plundered it, burnt it,…