Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Samuel 30:3
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.
3. David and his men came to thecity, and, behold, it was burned with fireThe language impliesthat the smoke of the conflagration was still visible, and thesacking very recent.
1Sa30:6-15. BUT DAVID,ENCOURAGED BY GOD,PURSUES THEM.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(3) And behold, it was burned with fire.A terrible reception for David and his free lances, on their return from their ill-omened expedition with the great Philistine army, to find only the charred and smoking ruins of their homes; not one of all their dear ones, whom they had left behindas they thought in securityleft to tell the story of the disaster. It was the Egyptian slave who had fallen sick, and, in consequence, had been deserted, and whom they came upon in the course of the pursuit, who gave them the details, and told them the story of the invasion, and described the route taken by the marauding force on their return to their country.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
1Sa 30:3 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.
Ver. 3. And, behold, it was burned with fire. ] Such is the woe and the waste of war. And now David was at his worst, – this sad accident was worse to him than all the evil that had befallen him from his youth until now, as Joab said in another case:, 2Sa 19:7 – a sign that deliverance was at next near by; as when things are at worst, we say they will mend.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton (App-6) in this verse.
burned = burning.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
burned: Psa 34:19, Heb 12:6, 1Pe 1:6, 1Pe 1:7, Rev 3:9
Reciprocal: Job 5:24 – thou shalt know Psa 119:61 – The bands Lam 3:51 – eye
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
30:3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, [it was] burned with fire; and their {c} wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
(c) For those only remained in the city, when the men were gone to war.