Then answered all the wicked men; when those two hundred men required or expected a part of the spoil; and they gathered from David's words and carriage that he intended to give it to them. Wicked men and men of Belial; so he calls them, for their covetousness, and injustice, and churlishness to their brethren; by which expressions we may judge how heinous and odious those sins are in God's sight. Because they went not with us; which was from their impotency; not by choice or design. Herein therefore was their iniquity and unreasonableness, they would punish them for no fault.
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1 Samuel 30:22
22 Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of thosec that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.