13And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.
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And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-16)Here is, I. David’s reception of these tidings. So far was he from falling into a transport of joy, as the Amalekite expected, that he fell into a passion of weeping, rent his clothes (2 Sam. 1:11), mourned and fasted (2 Sam. 1:12), not only for his people Israel and Jonathan his friend but for Saul his enemy. This he did, not only as a man of honour, in observance of that decorum which forbids us…
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