Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 24:2

2 Sǎoluó jiù cóng Yǐsèliè rén zhōng tiānxuǎn sān qiā jīng bīng , shuaìlǐng tāmen wǎng yĕ yáng de pánshí qù , xún suǒ Dàwèi hé gēnsuí tāde rén .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 24:2 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 24:2

Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel,
&c.] Out of his army, with which he had been pursuing the Philistines:

and went to seek David, and his men, upon the rocks of the wild goats;
which were in the wilderness of Engedi; those rocks were exceeding high and terrible to look at, full of precipices, and so prominent, that to travellers they seemed as if they would fall into the adjacent valleys, that it even struck terror into them to look at them ^F24; called the rocks of wild goats, because these creatures, called from hence "rupicaprae", or rock goats, see ( Job 39:1 ) ; delighted to be there; and are, as Pliny ^F25 says, of such prodigious swiftness, that they will leap from mountain to mountain, and back again at pleasure; these mountains David and his men chose for safety, and the height and craggedness of them did not deter Saul and his men from seeking him there.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Adrichom Theatrum Terrae Sanct. p. 47. & Brocard. in ib.
F25 Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 53.

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 24:2 In-Context

1 Sǎoluó zhuīgǎn Fēilìshì rén huí lái , yǒu rén gàosu tā shuō , Dàwèi zaì yǐn jī dǐ de kuàngyĕ .

2 Sǎoluó jiù cóng Yǐsèliè rén zhōng tiānxuǎn sān qiā jīng bīng , shuaìlǐng tāmen wǎng yĕ yáng de pánshí qù , xún suǒ Dàwèi hé gēnsuí tāde rén .

3 Dào le lùpáng de yángjuàn , zaì nàli yǒu dòng , Sǎoluó jìn qù dà jiĕ . Dàwèi hé gēnsuí tāde rén zhēng cáng zaì dòng lǐ de shēn chù .

4 Gēnsuí de rén duì Dàwèi shuō , Yēhéhuá céng yīngxǔ nǐ shuō , wǒ yào jiāng nǐde chóudí jiāo zaì nǐ shǒu lǐ , nǐ kĕyǐ rènyì dāi tā . rújīn shíhou dào le . Dàwèi jiù qǐlai , qiāoqiāo de gē xià Sǎoluó waì paó de yī jīn .

5 Suíhòu Dàwèi xīn zhōng zì zé , yīnwei gē xià Sǎoluó de yī jīn .