SEV Biblia, Chapter 30:17
Y los hirió David desde aquella madrugada hasta la tarde del día; y no escapó de ellos ninguno, sino cuatrocientos jóvenes, que habían subido en camellos y huyeron.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 30:17
Verse 17. There escaped not a man of them] It is well known to every careful reader of the Bible, that the Amalekites were a proscribed people, even by God himself, and that in extirpating them it has been supposed David fulfilled the express will of God. But all this depends on whether he had an express commission to do so, received from God himself, as Saul had.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 17. And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day , etc.] As there are two twilights, the twilight of the morning, and the twilight of the evening; this is differently understood some take it for the twilight of the morning, and that it was night when David came to them, and let them alone till they were drunk and asleep, and then early in the morning fell upon them, and smote them until the evening; so Josephus relates it; but others take it to be the twilight of the evening, and that he fell upon them that night, and continued the slaughter of them to the evening of the next day, with which agrees the Targum; nay, some take the next day, or the morrow, to be that which followed after the two evenings; so that this slaughter was carried on to the third day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men that rode upon camels, and fled ; that sort of camels called dromedaries, according to Josephus f559 , and which were very swift, and much used by the Arabians, near whom these people dwelt, (see Isaiah 60:6 Jeremiah 2:23).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 16-20 - Sinners are nearest to ruin, when they cry, Peace and safety, and pu the evil day far from them. Nor does any thing give our spiritual enemies more advantage than sensuality and indulgence. Eating an drinking, and dancing, have been the soft and pleasant way in whic many have gone down to the congregation of the dead. The spoil wa recovered, and brought off; nothing was lost, but a great deal gained.
Original Hebrew
ויכם 5221 דוד 1732 מהנשׁף 5399 ועד 5704 הערב 6153 למחרתם 4283 ולא 3808 נמלט 4422 מהם 1992 אישׁ 376 כי 3588 אם 518 ארבע 702 מאות 3967 אישׁ 376 נער 5288 אשׁר 834 רכבו 7392 על 5921 הגמלים 1581 וינסו׃ 5127
