3So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
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Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: …
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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, and carried all the women and children captives, 1 Sam. 30:1 , 2 . They intended, by this to revenge the like havoc that David had lately made of them and their country, 1 Sam. 27:8. He that had made…
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