1 Samuel 30

They have got their sickness in your service; use what means you can for their recovery. Be not like the Amalekite, who forsook his servant when he was sick (1 Samuel 30:13), but be as the good Centurion, who kept his sick servant, and sought to Christ for a cure (Matthew 8:6).…

After we have been at the solemn worship of God we are apt to grow remiss, and leave off former strictness: like a soldier, that after the battle leaves off his armor. Now Satan watches his time; he does as David did the Amalekites: after they had taken the spoil and were secure…

Cain slays Abel that notable servant of GOD: but his reward was this, he was cast forth of God's Church, Genesis 4.11, 13. and stricken in God's just judgment with final desperation. Saul persecuted David: but his end was to kill himself with his own sword, 1 Samuel 30.4. And Je…

Whereto may be added that in (2 Chronicles 30) where the people that prepared their hearts to seek God, are accepted of God in the Passeover, though they were not cleansed according to the purification of the Sanctuary: yet whatever it was that hindred their cleansing, their pre…

And when Joseph's brothers were afraid because they had sold him into Egypt, he comforts them, saying, that it was God that sent him before them, for their preservation (Genesis 45:7). So king David when his own soldiers were purposed to stone him to death, he was in great sorro…

See how deeply the Apostle has stigmatized such wretches; (1 Timothy 5:8). If any man provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. Thirdly, another duty that husbands owe their wives, is protection from…

First, It is to strengthen, and encourage your hearts in difficult affairs, a comfortable issue whereof, you cannot on visible causes conjecture, on the account of God's engagement for your good. To omit the instance of Asa, Jehosaphat, and many others; take that signal one of D…

When upon the surprise of a fright, he changed his behavior before Abimelech, and counterfeited that madness, which angry people realize; yet his mind was so very quiet and undisturbed, that at that time he penned the 34th Psalm, in which not only the excellency of the matter, a…

For 1. Some, when they observe their servants begin to be sick, will put them out of their houses, and leave them to shift for themselves, as that cruel Amalekite who left his sick servant abroad in the fields (1 Samuel 30:13). But note the vengeance of God which followed thereu…

This testified the truth of David's faith, who found it staying him upon God, when there was nothing else near that could do it: I had fainted unless I had believed (Psalm 27:13). So in his strait (1 Samuel 30:6), where it is said, that David was greatly distressed: but he encou…

And can he be all in all to you? 1 Samuel 30:6: David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. When the Amalekites carried away all, yet this was his comfort — God was left still.

At that time the favorers of the Gospel suffered much rapine and spoil of goods. Applying it to David's case, some think it fulfilled when the Amalekites spoiled Ziklag (1 Samuel 30), and took the women captive, and the spoil of the city. Some understand it of the time when Absa…

In the world there still is day and night, summer and winter: here is a mixture of mourning and joy, but there all comfort (Matthew 5:4). Fourthly, the highest and chiefest object of our comfort is the Lord himself: David comforted himself in the Lord his God (1 Samuel 30:6). Th…

And for weanedness from the world, the example of Moses is notable, who by his faith refused all the pleasures, profits, and preferments of Pharaoh's Court: preferring the society of the saints, and the very rebuke of Christ before them all (Hebrews 11:25, 26). And therefore it…

David thought on God and was troubled; not every remembrance of God will comfort the soul; but when I speak of remembrance, I speak not only of remembering God, when the heart is overwhelmed, but faith keeps a daily remembrance of God even from time to time. Transient remembranc…

In adversity it has also a double use. 1. It upholds us in the present distress, when else we know not what to do: instance David (1 Samuel 30:6) and Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 20:12). 2 It moves us patiently to wait for deliverance: for God having promised to give a good issue,…

Thirdly, by dreams (Job 33:14-15; Genesis 40:8). Fourthly, by Urim and Thummim (Numbers 27:21; 1 Samuel 30:7-8). Fifthly, by signs (Genesis 32:24; Exodus 13:21).