撒母耳记上 30:13

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

大衛問他：“你是屬誰的？你從哪裡來？”他回答：“我是個埃及的青年人，是亞瑪力人的奴僕。因為我三天前病了，我的主人就把我丟棄了。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
大 卫 问 他 说 ： 你 是 属 谁 的 ？ 你 是 哪 里 的 人 ？ 他 回 答 说 ： 我 是 埃 及 的 少 年 人 ， 是 亚 玛 力 人 的 奴 仆 ； 因 我 三 日 前 患 病 ， 我 主 人 就 把 我 撇 弃 了 。

Contextual Overview

⁷ David said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring me the holy vest." ⁸ Then David asked the Lord , "Should I chase the people who took our families? Will I catch them?" The Lord answered, "Chase them. You will catch them, and you will succeed in saving your families." ⁹ David and the six hundred men with him came to the Besor Ravine, where some of the men stayed. ¹⁰ David and four hundred men kept up the chase. The other two hundred men stayed behind because they were too tired to cross the ravine. ¹¹ They found an Egyptian in a field and brought him to David. They gave the Egyptian some water to drink and some food to eat. ¹² And they gave him a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. Then he felt better, because he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and nights. ¹³ David asked him, "Who is your master? Where do you come from?" He answered, "I'm an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite. Three days ago my master left me, because I was sick. ¹⁴ We had raided the southern area of the Kerethites, the land of Judah, and the southern area of Caleb. We burned Ziklag, as well." ¹⁵ David asked him, "Can you lead me to the people who took our families?" He answered, "Yes, if you promise me before God that you won't kill me or give me back to my master. Then I will take you to them." ¹⁶ So the Egyptian led David to the Amalekites. They were lying around on the ground, eating and drinking and celebrating with the things they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my master: Though they had booty enough, and this poor sick slave might have been carried on an ass or a camel, yet they inhumanely left him to perish; but, in the righteous providence of God, this cruelty was the occasion of their destruction; whilst David's kindness to a perishing stranger and slave was the means of his success, and proved the truest policy. Job 31:13-15, Proverbs 12:10, James 2:13

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 30:12 - three days 2 Samuel 1:8 - an Amalekite 1 Chronicles 18:11 - Amalek Jonah 1:8 - What is thine

Cross-References

Genesis 30:24
and she named him Joseph. Rachel said, "I wish the Lord would give me another son."

Genesis 30:25
After the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Now let me go to my own home and country.

Genesis 35:26
And he had two sons by Leah's slave girl Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These are Jacob's sons who were born in Northwest Mesopotamia.

Genesis 46:17
Asher's sons were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and their sister was Serah. Beriah's sons were Heber and Malkiel.

Genesis 49:20
"Asher's land will grow much good food; he will grow food fit for a king.

Proverbs 31:28
Her children speak well of her. Her husband also praises her,

Song of Solomon 6:9
but there is only one like my dove, my perfect one. She is her mother's only daughter, the brightest of the one who gave her birth. The young women saw her and called her happy; the queens and the slave women also praised her.

Luke 1:48
because he has shown his concern for his humble servant girl. From now on, all people will say that I am blessed,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David said unto him, to whom [belongest] thou?.... To what country or people? and to whom among them?

and whence [art] thou? of what nation? where wast thou born? what countryman art thou? for his being called an Egyptian before seems to be by anticipation, unless it was guessed at by his habit; for until he had eaten and drank he could not speak, and so could not be known by his speech:

for he said, I [am] a young man of Egypt; that was the country he belonged to, and came from; he was an Egyptian by birth:

servant to an Amalekite; one of those that had invaded the country, and burnt Ziklag, as it follows:

and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick; which was very barbarous and cruel to leave him at all, when they had camels with them, 1 Samuel 30:17; and no doubt carriages for their arms, provision, and spoil, and men; and more so to leave him without anybody with him to take care of him, and without any food, when he capable of eating any; but so it was ordered by the providence of God, that should be left to be the instrument of the just ruin of his master, and of the whole troop.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 30:13. My master left me, because three days agone I fell sick. — This was very inhuman: though they had booty enough, and no doubt asses sufficient to carry the invalids, yet they left this poor man to perish; and God visited it upon them, as he made this very person the means of their destruction, by the information which he was enabled to give to David and his men.