Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 30:20

20 Dàwèi suǒ duó lái de niú qún yáng qún , gēnsuí tāde rén gǎn zaì yuán yǒude qún xù qiánbiān , shuō , zhè shì Dàwèi de lüè wù .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 30:20 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 30:20

And David took all the flocks, and the herds
Which they had taken from the land of the Philistines, or which belonged to the Amalekites properly:

[which] they drave before those [other] cattle;
which had been carried from Ziklag; first went the spoil taken from other places, and then those taken from David and his men, or what was found at Ziklag. Abarbinel supposes the meaning to be this, that the herds were driven before the flocks, that the oxen were led out first, and then the sheep followed, as being the weaker sort, and more easily to be driven, and carried off; but the former sense seems best:

and said, this [is] David's spoil;
either the whole of it, it being owing to him that it was got or brought back; or this may respect some peculiar part of it made a present of to him; or it may design what the Amalekites had taken from others, which was at the disposal of David, as distinguished from what was taken from Ziklag, and was restored, or to be restored to the proper owners: it may be taken in the first and more general sense, as being the song, or the burden of the song, sung by David's men as they returned with the spoil, giving him all the honour of it, of whom, but a little before, they talked of stoning.

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 30:20 In-Context

18 Yàmǎlì rén suǒ lǔ qù de cáiwù , Dàwèi quándōu duó huí , bìng jiù huí tāde liǎng gè qī lái .

19 Fán Yàmǎlì rén suǒ lǔ qù de , wúlùn dà xiǎo , érnǚ , cáiwù , Dàwèi dōu duó huí lái , méiyǒu shīluò yī gè .

20 Dàwèi suǒ duó lái de niú qún yáng qún , gēnsuí tāde rén gǎn zaì yuán yǒude qún xù qiánbiān , shuō , zhè shì Dàwèi de lüè wù .

21 Dàwèi dào le nà pí fá bùnéng gēnsuí , liú zaì bǐ suō xī de èr bǎi rén nàli . tāmen chūlai yíngjiē Dàwèi bìng gēnsuí de rén . Dàwèi qián lái wèn tāmen ān .

22 Gēnsuí Dàwèi rén zhōng de è rén héfĕi leì shuō , zhèxie rén jìrán méiyǒu hé wǒmen tóng qù , wǒmen suǒ duó de cáiwù jiù bù fēn gĕi tāmen , zhǐ jiāng tāmen gèrén de qīzi érnǚ gĕi tāmen , shǐ tāmen daì qù jiù shì le .