And he said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
Here is, I. David settling again in Ziklag, his own city, after he had rescued his family and friends out of the hands of the Amalekites (Sa2 1:1): He abode in Ziklag. Thence he was now sending presents to his friends (Sa1 30:26), and there he was ready to receive those that came into his interests; not men in distress and debt, as his first...
Commenting on 2 Samuel 1:1-10
And he said unto me, who art thou?.... Being willing to know whether a friend or an enemy, which by his coming behind him he could not tell: and I answered him, I am an Amalekite: which he might be; but it is not likely he should tell Saul he was, which would not recommend him to him; though indeed he was now in such...
And he said unto me, Who [art] thou? And I answered him, I [am] an Amalekite. (c) He was an Amalekite born, but renounced his country and joined with the Israelites.