1st Samuel Chapter 30 verse 11 Holy Bible
And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they gave him water to drink.
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And in the fields they saw an Egyptian whom they took to David, and they gave him bread, and he had a meal, and they gave him water for drink;
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And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink,
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And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;
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And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they made him drink water;
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They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.
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and they find a man, an Egyptian, in the field, and take him unto David, and give to him bread, and he eateth, and they cause him to drink water,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 11, 12. - An Egyptian, the slave, as we read in ver. 13, of some Amalekite, left in the field, in the open common, to perish. He had become faint and could not travel as fast as they did, and so was left behind with no supplies of food, for he had eaten nothing for three days and three nights. The Amalekites had thus a start of at least this time, or even more, as this slave would probably have carried some food away with him from Ziklag.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) An Egyptian.--The Amalekites, as above stated, were a nomad race; their wanderings would have taken them to the frontiers of Egypt, hence the probability of their having Egyptian slaves in their tribe. The savage nature of these untamed sons of the desert has been already commented upon when the war of extermination with Amalek was discussed. They seem to have been a ruthless, cruel race, the scourge of the desert, and of the people dwelling near its borders. From the narrative, they had evidently many camels in their force (1Samuel 30:17), so the abandonment of the sick slave, left, without food or water, to die of hunger, was a needless act of barbarity on their part.