2 Samuel 1:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?

2 Samuel 1:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Proverbs 14:15
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

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 (2 Sam. 1:1): He abode in Ziklag. Thence he was now sending presents to his friends (1 Sam. 30:26), and there he was ready to receive those that came into his interests; not men in distress and debt, as his first followers were, but persons of quality in their co…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

2-12. a man came out of the camp from Saul--As the narrative of Saul’s death, given in the last chapter, is inspired, it must be considered the true account, and the Amalekite’s story a fiction of his own, invented to ingratiate himself with David, the presumptive successor to the throne. David’s question, “How went the matter?” evinces the deep interest he took in the war, an interest that sprang…