1 Samuel 30:20

This verse, which is made unintelligible in the A.V. by the insertion of the unauthorised word which, is really free from difficulty. After David, as related in 1 Samuel 30:18 , 1 Samuel 30:19 , had recovered the cattle carried oft by the Amalekites, he also took all the flocks and herds belonging to them; and his own men "made these go in front of that body of cattle, and said, This is David's spoil," i.e. they presented it to him by acclamation. It was this large booty which he distributed among his friends ( 1 Samuel 30:26-31 ).

DAVID ENACTS A LAW FOR THE DIVISION OF THE SPOIL ( 1 Samuel 30:21-25 ).