Holy Scripture

1 Samuel 27:8

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“And David and his men went up, etc. Upon the rock, Egypt sounds darkness. Therefore, the Church was growing through the steadfastness of Christ's disciples, and was rescuing souls from pagan rites, which, following the examples of not new but ancient men, had clung to earthly desires, with all going to the hardness of…”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Samuel

Source: Septuagint

Original

8And David and his men went up, and made an attack on all the Girzites and on the Amalekites: and behold, the land was inhabited (even the land from Gelampsur) by those who come from the fortified cities even to the land of Egypt.

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6And he gave him Ziklag in that day: therefore Ziklag came into possession of the king of Judea to this day.

7And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was four months.

— 1 Samuel 27:8 —

9And he smote the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive; and they took flocks, and herds, and asses, and camels, and raiment; and they returned and came to Achish.

10And Achish said to David, On whom have ye made an attack today? And David said to Achish, On the south of Judea, and on the south of Jesmega, and on the south of the Kenite.

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