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Selected Verse: 2 Samuel 1:13 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
2Sa 1:13	Strong Concordance	And David [01732] said [0559] unto the young man [05288] that told [05046] him, Whence art thou? And he answered [0559], I am the son [01121] of a stranger [0376] [01616], an Amalekite [06003].
	King James	And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
David said unto the young man . . . Whence art thou?--The man had at the outset stated who he was. But the question was now formally and judicially put. The punishment inflicted on the Amalekite may seem too severe, but the respect paid to kings in the West must not be regarded as the standard for that which the East may think due to royal station. David's reverence for Saul, as the Lord's anointed, was in his mind a principle on which he had faithfully acted on several occasions of great temptation. In present circumstances it was especially important that his principle should be publicly known; and to free himself from the imputation of being in any way accessory to the execrable crime of regicide was the part of a righteous judge, no less than of a good politician.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

David said unto the young man . . . Whence art thou?--The man had at the outset stated who he was. But the question was now formally and judicially put. The punishment inflicted on the Amalekite may seem too severe, but the respect paid to kings in the West must not be regarded as the standard for that which the East may think due to royal station. David's reverence for Saul, as the Lord's anointed, was in his mind a principle on which he had faithfully acted on several occasions of great temptation. In present circumstances it was especially important that his principle should be publicly known; and to free himself from the imputation of being in any way accessory to the execrable crime of regicide was the part of a righteous judge, no less than of a good politician.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
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 Sa1 25:13, Sa1 25:32-34.

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³² And David [01732] said [0559] to Abigail [026], Blessed [01288] be the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478], which sent [07971] thee this day [03117] to meet [07125] me:
³³ And blessed [01288] be thy advice [02940], and blessed [01288] be thou, which hast kept [03607] me this day [03117] from coming [0935] to shed blood [01818], and from avenging [03467] myself with mine own hand [03027].
³⁴ For in very deed [0199], as the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478] liveth [02416], which hath kept me back [04513] from hurting [07489] thee, except [03884] thou hadst hasted [04116] and come [0935] to meet [07125] me, surely there had not been left [03498] unto Nabal [05037] by the morning [01242] light [0216] any that pisseth [08366] against the wall [07023].

¹³ And David [01732] said [0559] unto his men [0582], Gird ye on [02296] every man [0376] his sword [02719]. And they girded on [02296] every man [0376] his sword [02719]; and David [01732] also girded on [02296] his sword [02719]: and there went up [05927] after [0310] David [01732] about four [0702] hundred [03967] men [0376]; and two hundred [03967] abode [03427] by the stuff [03627].