1 Samuel 30:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.

There escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled - rather dromedaries (see a story exactly parallel, Robinson's 'Biblical Researches,' 2:, p. 584). The people as well as the booty taken from Ziklag was recovered, and, besides, a great amount of spoil which they had collected in wide freebooting excursion.

1 Samuel 30:17

17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.