So David and his men came to the city
Or however to the place where it had stood, and where it now lay
in ruins:
and, behold, [it was] burnt with fire;
the whole city was laid in ashes:
and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were
taken
captives;
as it appeared afterwards; for upon their first coming they knew
not but they were all destroyed; and which they might reasonably
suppose from their former treatment of them, unless there were
any left upon the spot which could inform them how things were,
which does not appear, and which must make their distress the
greater.
