1 Samuel 30:23
Then David said, Ye shall not do so, my brothers, with that which LORD has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.
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Numbers 31:49And they said to Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war that are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us.
Deuteronomy 8:17And [lest] thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.
Judges 19:23And the man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, No, my brothers, I pray you, do not so wickedly, seeing that this man has come into my house. Do not this folly.
1 Samuel 30:8And David inquired of LORD, saying, If I pursue after this troop, shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue, for thou shall surely overtake [them], and shall without fail recover [all].
Psalms 44:2Thou drove out the nations with thy hand, but thou planted them. Thou afflicted the peoples, but thou spread them abroad.
Habakkuk 1:16Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his drag, because by them his portion is fat, and his food plentiful.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 30:22-31
David's Division of the Spoil. ( b. c. 1055.) 21 And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them. 22 Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have… Read the whole commentary →