It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.
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Gill's Exposition
It came to pass on the third day,.... After the battle was fought, in which Saul was slain:
that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul; that is, from them who were in the camp with Saul, for…
Adam Clarke
A man came out of the camp - The whole account which this young man gives is a fabrication: in many of the particulars it is grossly self-contradictory. There is no fact in the case but the bringing…
Here is, I. David settling again in Ziklag, his own city, after he had rescued his family and friends out of the hands of the Amalekites (Sa2 1:1): He abode in Ziklag. Thence he was now sending…
Cambridge Bible
on the third day The exact position of Ziklag in the Negeb, or "South country," has not been determined. But if we may place it in the neighbourhood of Beersheba (see note on 1Sa 27:6), the distance…
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