2 Samuel 1:1,2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

David had abode two days in Ziklag Which, it appears from this, the Amalekites had not so burned down that David and his men could not lodge in it. On the third day From David's return to Ziklag. With his clothes rent As the manner of deep mourners was.

2 Samuel 1:1-2

1 Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;

2 It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.