1 Samuele 22:2

2 E tutti quelli ch’erano in angustie, che avean dei debiti o che erano scontenti, si radunaron presso di lui, ed egli divenne loro capo, ed ebbe con sé circa quattrocento uomini.

1 Samuele 22:2 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 22:2

And everyone [that was] in distress
In straitened circumstances, through the oppression of men, through poverty, and afflictive providences in their families:

and everyone [that was] in debt;
and not able to pay their debts, and whose creditors were pressing upon them:

and everyone [that was] discontented;
with Saul's government and conduct: or "bitter in soul" ^F24; distressed and uneasy in their minds, being pinched with want, or pressed with sore afflictions, which made them very disconsolate: these

gathered themselves unto him;
to help him, or rather to be helped by him; hoping in time things would take a favourable turn with him, and he should be advanced to the throne, and so their circumstances would be mended thereby:

and he became a captain over them;
they enlisted themselves in his service, and he took the command of them; he might not know the circumstances of those in debt, nor of any of them thoroughly, nor their views in joining him; however he meant not to shelter them from paying their just debts if able, nor to encourage them in disloyalty to their king, only to make use of them for his own preservation for the present. In this he was a type of Christ, who receives sinners distressed with a sense of sin, discontented in their present state, and in debt, and, unable to pay their debts; see ( Matthew 11:28 ) ( Luke 7:41 Luke 7:42 ) ( Luke 15:2 ) ;

and there were with him about four hundred men;
among whom some think were the three mighty men spoken of in ( 2 Samuel 23:13 2 Samuel 23:14 ) ( 1 Chronicles 11:15 1 Chronicles 11:16 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 (vpn rm) "amarus animo", Pagninus, Montanus.

1 Samuele 22:2 In-Context

1 Or Davide si partì di là e si rifugiò nella spelonca di Adullam, e quando i suoi fratelli e tutta la famiglia di suo padre lo seppero, scesero quivi per unirsi a lui.

2 E tutti quelli ch’erano in angustie, che avean dei debiti o che erano scontenti, si radunaron presso di lui, ed egli divenne loro capo, ed ebbe con sé circa quattrocento uomini.

3 Di là Davide andò a Mitspa di Moab, e disse al re di Moab: "Deh, permetti che mio padre e mia madre vengano a stare da voi, fino a tanto ch’io sappia quel che Iddio farà di me".

4 Egli dunque li condusse davanti al re di Moab, ed essi rimasero con lui tutto il tempo che Davide fu nella sua fortezza.

5 E il profeta Gad disse a Davide: "Non star più in questa fortezza; parti, e récati nel paese di Giuda". Davide allora partì, e venne nella foresta di Hereth.