2 Samuel 1:8 meaning and explanation
‘Who are you?’ he asked. So I told him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
2 Samuel 1:8, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the young man who has just reached David at Ziklag with torn clothes and dust on his head, reporting the disaster on Mount Gilboa. Saul, wounded and cornered by Philistine chariots, asked his identity, and he answered, “I am an Amalekite.” The detail matters because David had just been fighting Amalekites, and because this man is a foreigner claiming to have stood over Israel’s king.
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