2 Samuel 1:13

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him: ¹¹ David and his men tore their clothes in sorrow when they heard the news. ¹¹ Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him: ¹¹ Then David tore his clothes to show his sorrow, and all the men with him did also. ¹¹ David then grabbed his own clothes and tore them, as did all the men who were with him. ¹¹ Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that [were] with him: ¹¹ Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and likewise all the men who were with him: ¹¹Then David grasped his own clothes and tore them [in mourning]; so did all the men who were with him. ¹¹ Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so did all the men who were with him. ¹¹ Forsothe Dauid took and to-rente hise clothis, and the men that weren with hym;

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2 Samuel 1:8

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 21:16 - Ahab rose up Psalms 18:44 - strangers

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David said unto the young man that told him, whence [art] thou?.... From what place, or of what people and nation art thou? though Abarbinel thinks it neither respects place nor people, but that David thought he was another man's servant; so that the sense of the question is, to what man did he belong?

and he answered, I [am] the son of a stranger, an Amalekite; he was not any man's servant, but the son of a proselyte, of one that was by birth and nation an Amalekite, but proselyted to the Jewish religion; he might know of what nation he originally was, by the account he had given of what passed between him and Saul, 2 Samuel 1:8; though the mind of David might so disturbed as not to advert to it; or if he did, he might be willing to have it repeated for confirmation's sake.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Whether David believed the Amalekite’s story, or not, his anger was equally excited, and the fact that the young man was an Amalekite, was not calculated to calm or check it. That David’s temper was hasty, we know from 1 Samuel 25:13, 1 Samuel 25:32-34.