1 Samuel 27:9 Meaning, Study, & Commentary | ASV

And David smote the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel; and he returned, and came to Achish.

Commentaries

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century

Anglican

19th Century

And left neither man nor woman alive. — These acts of ferocious barbarity are simply without excuse; the reason for them …

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century

Reformed Baptist

17th Century

And David smote the land
In which the above mentioned people dwelt, that is, the inhabitants of it:

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Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century

Presbyterian

17th Century

While David was in the land of the Philistines, he attacked some remnants of the devoted nations. The people whom he destroyed had long before been…