1 Samuel 23:28

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Maka berhentilah Saul mengejar Daud dan pergi menghadapi orang Filistin. Itulah sebabnya orang menyebut tempat itu: Gunung Batu Keluputan.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Maka berhentilah Saul mengejar Daud dan pergi menghadapi orang Filistin. Itulah sebabnya orang menyebut tempat itu: Gunung Batu Keluputan.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu baliklah Saul dari pada mengusir Daud pergi mendatangi orang Filistin, maka sebab itu dinamai oranglah akan tempat itu: bukit Batu Keluputan.

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ Then came the Ziphites to Saul to Gibea, saying: Doth not Dauid hyde him selfe fast by vs in strong holdes, in the wood in the hill of Hachila, on the right side of Iesimon? ²⁰ Nowe therfore O king, thou mayest come downe according to all the lust of thy soule, and our part shalbe to deliuer him into the kinges hande. ²¹ And Saul sayde: Blessed are ye in the Lord, for ye haue compassion on me: ²² Go I pray you and prepare yet better, knowe and see where his foote hath ben, & who hath seene him there: for it is tolde me that he is very subtyll. ²³ See therfore, and know al the lurking places where he hydeth him selfe, and come ye againe to me with ye certaintie, and I wil go with you: And yf he be in the lande, I will searche him out throughout al the thousandes of Iuda. ²⁴ And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: But Dauid & his men were in the wildernesse of Maon, in the plaine that is on the right hande of Iesimon. ²⁵ Saul also and his men went to seke him: And they told Dauid, wherfore he came downe vnto a rocke, and abode in the wildernesse of Maon: And when Saul heard that, he folowed after Dauid in the wildernesse of Maon. ²⁶ And Saul and his men went on the one syde of the mountayne, and Dauid & his men on the other syde of the mountaine: And Dauid made haste to get fro the presence of Saul. For Saul and his men, compassed Dauid and his men round about, to take them. ²⁷ But ther came a messenger to Saul, saying: Haste thee and come, for the Philistines haue inuaded the lande. ²⁸ Wherfore Saul returned from persecuting Dauid, and went against the Philistines: And therfore they called that place, Sela Hamnahlekoth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Selahammahlekoth: that is, the rock of divisions, Because, says the Targum, "the heart of the king was divided to go hither and thither." Here Saul was obliged to separate himself from David, in order to go and oppose the invading Philistines; which deliverance of David was of such a nature as made the Divine interposition fully visible. 1 Samuel 23:28

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 23:25 - into a rock 1 Samuel 24:1 - when Saul Isaiah 37:9 - he heard

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore Saul returned from pursuing after David,.... Stopped short at once, as soon as ever he received the message:

and went against the Philistines; to stop them in their progress, and drive them out of his country:

therefore they called that place Selahammahlekoth, which signifies the rock of divisions. David and his men, very probably, gave it this name, not only because it divided between Saul and his men, and David and his men, when they were one on one side of it, and the other on the other side of it; but because Saul was, by the providence of God, divided and separated from David here, whereby he escaped falling into his hands. The Targum is,

"therefore they called that place the rock of division, the place where the heart of the king was divided to go here and there:''

he was divided in his own mind, and at a loss what to do; he was in two minds, as Jarchi says, and did not know which to follow, whether to return and deliver his country from the hands of the Philistines, or to pursue and take David; and others represent the soldiers of Saul as divided, some saying that since the son of Jesse was just falling into their hands, they should not leave him; others, that the war of Israel should be regarded before him, who might be found at any time u.

u Midrash apud Yalkut in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sela-hammahlekoth - See the margin. (Identified by Conder with a narrow and impassable gorge between El Kolah and Maon, called Malaky).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 23:28. They called that place Sela-hammah-lekoth. — That is, the rock of divisions; because, says the Targum, the heart of the king was divided to go hither and thither. Here Saul was obliged to separate himself from David, in order to go and oppose the invading Philistines.