Holy Scripture

1 Samuel 30:9

A church father on this verse
“David himself therefore went, and six hundred men who were with him, etc. The Brook Besor, which is interpreted as announcement or flesh, or the carnal sense of heretics difficult to correct, or signifies the redundancy of secular eloquence, and equally rapid and violent in its flow, not easily overcome except by the…”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Samuel

Source: Septuagint

Original

9So David went, he and the six hundred men with him, and they come as far as the brook Besor, and the superfluous ones stopped.

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In context

7And David said to Abiathar the priest the son of Ahimelech, Bring near the ephod.

8And David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? and he said to him, Pursue, for thou shalt surely overtake them, and thou shalt surely rescue the captives.

— 1 Samuel 30:9 —

10And he pursued them with four hundred men; and there remained behind two hundred men, who tarried on the other side of the brook Besor.

11And they find an Egyptian in the field, and they take him, and bring him to David; and they gave him bread and he ate, and they caused him to drink water.

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