2 Samuel 1:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

2 SAMUEL CHAPTER 1

David being at Ziklag receiveth tidings by an Amalekite of Saul and Jonathan's death: the messenger pretendeth himself to have killed Saul 2 Samuel 1:1-12. David causeth him to be put to death, 2 Samuel 1:13-16; lamenteth Saul and Jonathan with a song, 2 Samuel 1:17-27.

Which though burnt, yet was not so consumed by the fire, that David and his men could not lodge in it.

2 Samuel 1:1

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;