Charles Spurgeon Commentary 1 Samuel 30:18-20

Charles Spurgeon Commentary

1 Samuel 30:18-20

1834–1892
Baptist
Charles Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Commentary

1 Samuel 30:18-20

1834–1892
Baptist
SCRIPTURE

"And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives. And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them: David brought back all. And David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drove before those [other] cattle, and said, This is David`s spoil." — 1 Samuel 30:18-20 (ASV)

What was over and above what had been taken from Ziklag was very properly appropriated by David. I thought, as I read that David recovered all, how truly it can be said that the greater Son of David has recovered all. All that was lost by sin, our glorious and victorious Captain has recovered. What then shall be his spoil?

It was foretold that He shall divide the spoil with the strong. Let your hearts and mine, and all we are, and all we have, be surrendered to him, and let us say of it all, "This is Jesus' spoil, and to him be glory evermore!"