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1 Samuel 30
1 Samuels 1, 2,
3, 4,
5, 6,
7, 8,
9, 10,
11,12,
13, 14,
15, 16,
17, 18,
19, 20,
21, 22,
23, 24,
25, 26,
27, 28,
29, 30,
31
1 Samuel 30:1 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on
the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and
smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
2 And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either
great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.
3 So 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.
4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept,
until they had no more power to weep.
5 And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and
Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because
the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his
daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.
7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me
hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.
8 And David enquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall
I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake
them, and without fail recover all.
9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the
brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind,
which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave
him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;
12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and
when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor
drunk any water, three days and three nights.
13 And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he
said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me,
because three days agone I fell sick.
14 We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast
which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with
fire.
15 And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said,
Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the
hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.
16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all
the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that
they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day:
and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode
upon camels, and fled.
18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David
rescued his two wives.
19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons
nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David
recovered all.
20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those
other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.
21 And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could
not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they
went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when
David came near to the people, he saluted them.
22 Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with
David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of
the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children,
that they may lead them away, and depart.
23 Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the Lord
hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came
against us into our hand.
24 For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth
down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall
part alike.
25 And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an
ordinance for Israel unto this day.
26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah,
even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the
enemies of the Lord;
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Present = All these places south of Hebron were
protected by David, and these presents were a
return for their support.
27 To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to
them which were in Jattir,
28 And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to
them which were in Eshtemoa,
29 And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the
Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,
30 And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in Chor-ashan, and
to them which were in Athach,
31 And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself
and his men were wont to haunt.
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Hebron = Caleb's lot
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Haunt = frequent
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
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