And David took all the stocks and the herds, &c.— To crown his success, David and his men not only recovered every man his wife and children, and every thing they had lost; but all the plunder which the enemy had taken elsewhere; vast flocks and herds of cattle, which they now separated from their own, and, in honour of their leader, distinguished by the name of David's spoil; of which spoil, when David returned to Ziklag, he sent presents to all his friends who had protected and entertained him in his exile, whether in Judea or out of it; 1 Samuel 30:26-31. And from the account of this matter in the verses referred to, it appears, that David had in this exile sojourned in many places, whither the sacred historian did not think fit to trace him. Those places were principally in the tribe of Judah. This conduct of David's is certainly a high proof of the honest and overflowing gratitude of his heart for favours received.
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1 Samuel 30:20
20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.