1 Samuel 23:24

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

Maka bangkitlah mereka itu lalu pergi ke Zif mendahului Saul; maka Daud dan segala orangnya adalah di gurun Maon, pada padang yang di sebelah selatan gurun itu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu berkemaslah mereka pergi ke Zif, mendahului Saul. Daud dan orang-orangnya ada di padang gurun Maon, di dataran di sebelah selatan padang belantara.

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Lalu berkemaslah mereka pergi ke Zif, mendahului Saul. Daud dan orang-orangnya ada di padang gurun Maon, di dataran di sebelah selatan padang belantara.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the wilderness: Maon, from which the adjoining mountainous district derived its name, was city in the most southern parts of the tribe of Judah, and a neighbouring town to Carmel. Hence Nabal - 1 Samuel 25:2 is described as a man of Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and though he might dwell generally in Maon, yet he is styled Nabal the Carmelite, from the place where his estate lay. Calmet supposes it to be the city Minois, which Eusebius places in the vicinity of Gaza; and the Moenoemi Castrum, which the Theodosian code places near Beersheba.

Maon: 1 Samuel 25:2, Joshua 15:55

the south: 1 Samuel 23:19

Reciprocal: Joshua 15:24 - Ziph Judges 10:12 - the Maonites

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they arose, and went to Ziph, before Saul,.... Not before his person, as if he went with them, and they before him leading the way; but they went thither before he went, to prepare things more exactly, and with more certainty, before he came, and in order to return to him again and go with him:

but David and his men [were] in the wilderness at Maon; for by the time the Ziphites returned home, David had intelligence of their design, and therefore removed from the wilderness of Ziph to the wilderness of Maon; which, though in the same tribe, was a distinct place;

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in the plain on the south of Jeshimon; the same as in 1 Samuel 23:19; only David was now farther to the south of it, and in a plain, whereas before he was on an hill.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The plain - The Arabah, the desert tract which extends along the valley of the Jordan from the Dead Sea to the Lake of Gennesareth, now called El-Ghor. The word is now given by the Arabs to the valley between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Akaba.