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When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag and burned it with fire,
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Verse 1. Day. It was distant from Aphec about 90 miles.—Smitten, yet without killing any. Calmet.—We may adore a merciful Providence, which prevented these barbarians from treating David’s men as he had treated theirs. Calmet. 27:11. Salien, A.Calmet. 1074.—He would allow them to burn the city, and so forth that David might be roused to execute the divine vengeance upon them. Theodoret.
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