I Księga Samuela 22:2

Biblia Brzeska

I zebrali się do niego każdy, który jedno miał ucisk na się i każdy, który był dłużen i którego jedno co dolegało. I był książęciem ich, tak iż ich było przy nim około czterechset mężów.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
I zebrali się do niego wszyscy, którzy byli utrapieni, i wszyscy, którzy byli dłużni, i wszyscy, którzykolwiek byli w gorzkości serca, i był nad nimi książęciem, a było z nim około czterech set mężów.

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Zgromadzili się też przy nim wszyscy uciśnieni, zadłużeni i rozgoryczeni, a on został ich przywódcą. Tak znalazło się przy nim około czterystu mężczyzn.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Wokół niego zgromadzili się też wszelkiego rodzaju uciśnieni, jak i każdy, kto podpadł wierzycielowi, i każdy o rozgoryczonej duszy, więc stał się ich przywódcą. Tak przyłączyło się do niego około czterystu ludzi.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
I zebrali się do niego wszyscy, którzy byli utrapieni, i wszyscy, którzy byli dłużni, i wszyscy, którzykolwiek byli w gorzkości serca, i był nad nimi książęciem, a było z nim około czterech set mężów.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
I zebrali się wokół niego wszyscy, którzy byli uciśnieni, wszyscy, którzy byli zadłużeni, oraz wszyscy, którzy byli rozgoryczeni, a on stał się ich przywódcą. I było przy nim około czterystu mężczyzn.

Biblia Warszawska
I zgromadzili się wokół niego wszyscy ludzie uciśnieni i wszyscy zadłużeni oraz wszyscy rozgoryczeni, a on został ich przywódcą. Tak znalazło się przy nim około czterystu mężów.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

distress: Judges 11:3, Matthew 11:12, Matthew 11:28

was in debt: Heb. had a creditor, Matthew 18:25-34

discontented: Heb. bitter of soul, 1 Samuel 1:10, 1 Samuel 30:6, Judges 18:25, 2 Samuel 17:8, Proverbs 31:6, *marg.

a captain: 1 Samuel 9:16, 1 Samuel 25:15, 1 Samuel 25:16, 1 Samuel 30:22-24, 2 Samuel 5:2, 2 Kings 20:5, 1 Chronicles 11:15-19, Psalms 72:12-14, Matthew 9:12, Matthew 9:13, Hebrews 2:10

Reciprocal: Judges 9:4 - vain 1 Samuel 23:13 - six hundred 1 Samuel 25:7 - we hurt 1 Samuel 25:10 - there be 2 Samuel 2:3 - his men 2 Chronicles 13:7 - vain men Job 30:6 - dwell Psalms 142:1 - when he was

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And everyone [that was] in distress,.... In straitened circumstances, through the oppression of men, through poverty, and afflictive providences in their families:

and everyone [that was] in debt; and not able to pay their debts, and whose creditors were pressing upon them:

and everyone [that was] discontented; with Saul's government and conduct: or "bitter in soul" x; distressed and uneasy in their minds, being pinched with want, or pressed with sore afflictions, which made them very disconsolate: these

gathered themselves unto him; to help him, or rather to be helped by him; hoping in time things would take a favourable turn with him, and he should be advanced to the throne, and so their circumstances would be mended thereby:

and he became a captain over them; they enlisted themselves in his service, and he took the command of them; he might not know the circumstances of those in debt, nor of any of them thoroughly, nor their views in joining him; however he meant not to shelter them from paying their just debts if able, nor to encourage them in disloyalty to their king, only to make use of them for his own preservation for the present. In this he was a type of Christ, who receives sinners distressed with a sense of sin, discontented in their present state, and in debt, and, unable to pay their debts; see Matthew 11:28;

and there were with him about four hundred men; among whom some think were the three mighty men spoken of in 2 Samuel 23:13.

x מר נפש "amarus animo", Pagninus, Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Discontented - See the margin. (Compare 1 Samuel 30:6; 2 Samuel 17:8.) The phrase here denotes those who were exasperated by Saul’s tyranny.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 22:2. And every one that was in distress - debt - discontented — It is very possible that these several disaffected and exceptionable characters might at first have supposed that David, unjustly persecuted, would be glad to avail himself of their assistance that he might revenge himself upon Saul, and so they in the mean time might profit by plunder, c. But if this were their design they were greatly disappointed, for David never made any improper use of them. They are never found plundering or murdering on the contrary, they always appear under good discipline, and are only employed in services of a beneficent nature, and in defence of their country. Whatever they were before they came to David, we find that he succeeded in civilizing them, and making profitable to the state those who were before unprofitable. It is not necessary to strain the words of the original in order to prove that these were oppressed people, and not exceptionable characters, as some have done.