1 Samuel 30:25

1 Samuel 30:25 -

That he made it . I.e. David. Having been thus enacted by him and practised during his life, no king henceforward would venture to change it. In the war with the Midianites Moses had ordered that half the spoil should belong to the combatants and half to the congregation who remained in the camp ( Numbers 31:27 ). This enactment of David was in the same spirit.

DAVID PROPITIATES HIS FRIENDS BY SHARING WITH THEM HIS BOOTY ( 1 Samuel 30:26-31 ).

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

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