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I Księga Samuela 23:28

A przetoż Saul wrócił się przestawszy gonić Dawida, a ciągnął przeciw Filistynom. I nazwano miejsce ono Sela Hamachlekot.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Sela-Hammahlekoth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Rocks;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Philistia, philistines;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Samuel, First and Second, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Sela-Hammahlekoth;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Samuel, Books of;   Selah-Hammahlekoth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Rock;   Saul;   Sela-Hammahlekoth;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Selahammahlekoth ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Rock;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Da'vid;   Se'la-Hammahle'koth;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Rock;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Sela-Hammahlekoth;  

Parallel Translations

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Przetoż wrócił się Saul od pogoni za Dawidem, a ciągnął przeciw Filistynom; dla tego nazwali miejsce ono Sela Hammalekot.
Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Saul zatem zaniechał pościgu za Dawidem i wyruszył do walki z Filistynami. Dlatego nazwano to miejsce: Skała Rozstania.
Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Zatem Saul cofnął się od pościgu za Dawidem i wyruszył przeciwko Pelisztynom. Dlatego nazwano tą miejscowość Skałą Rozdzielenia się.
Biblia Tysiąclecia
Przetoż wrócił się Saul od pogoni za Dawidem, a ciągnął przeciw Filistynom; dla tego nazwali miejsce ono Sela Hammalekot.
Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Saul zawrócił więc od pościgu za Dawidem i wyruszył przeciw Filistynom. Dlatego nazwano to miejsce Sela-Hammalekot.
Biblia Warszawska
Zaniechał więc Saul pościgu za Dawidem i wyruszył na spotkanie z Filistyńczykami. Dlatego nazwano tę miejscowość Skała Rozstania.

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.


 
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