Reference: Ziklag
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A city of Judah and Simeon, on the borders of the Philistines, Jos 15:31; 19:5, who held it until the time of Saul, when Achish king of Gath gave it to David. Hither many other refugees from Judah resorted, and David was thus enabled to aid Achish, and to chastise the Amalekites who had sacked Ziklag during his absence, 1Sa 27:1-6; 30; Ne 11:28.
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And David will say in his heart, Now shall I be added one day into the hand of Saul: nothing good to me but escaping, I will escape into the land of the rovers; and Saul despairing to seek me farther in all the bound of Israel: and I was saved out of his hand. And David will rise and pass over, he and six hundred men that are with him, to Achish, son of Maoch, king of Gath. read more. And David dwelt with Achish in Gath, he and his men, each in his house, David and his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal, the Carmelitess. And it was announced to Saul that David fled to Gath; and he will no more add to seek him. And David will say to Achish, If now I found grace in thine eyes, will they give me a place in one city of the field, and I will dwell there: and why shall thy servant dwell in the city of the kingdom with thee? And Achish will give to him in that day Ziklag; for this Ziklag was to the kings of Judah, even to this day.
Easton
a town in the Negeb, or south country of Judah (Jos 15:31), in the possession of the Philistines when David fled to Gath from Ziph with all his followers. Achish, the king, assigned him Ziklag as his place of residence. There he dwelt for over a year and four months. From this time it pertained to the kings of Judah (1Sa 27:6). During his absence with his army to join the Philistine expedition against the Israelites (1Sa 29:11), it was destroyed by the Amalekites (1Sa 30:1-2), whom David, however, pursued and utterly routed, returning all the captives (1Sa 30:26-31). Two days after his return from this expedition, David received tidings of the disastrous battle of Gilboa and of the death of Saul (2Sa 1:1-16). He now left Ziklag and returned to Hebron, along with his two wives, Ahinoam and Abigail, and his band of 600 men. It has been identified with 'Asluj, a heap of ruins south of Beersheba. Conder, however, identifies it with Khirbet Zuheilikah, ruins found on three hills half a mile apart, some seventeen miles north-west of Beersheba, on the confines of Philistia, Judah, and Amalek.
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And Achish will give to him in that day Ziklag; for this Ziklag was to the kings of Judah, even to this day.
And David will rise early, he and his men, to go in the morning to turn back to the land of the rovers. And the rovers went up to Jezreel.
And it will be in the going up of David to Ziklag, and his men, in the third day, and the Amalekites plundered to the south, and to Ziklag, and they will strike Ziklag and burn it with fire. And they will take the women captive who are in it: from small and even to great they slew not a man, and they will lead away and go to their way.
And David will come to Ziklag, and he will send from the spoil to the old men of Judah, to his neighbors, saving, Behold, to you a blessing from the spoil of the enemies of Jehovah. To those in Bethel, and to those in south Ramah, and to those in Jattir, read more. And to those in Aroer, and to those in Siphmoth, and to those in Eshtemoa. And to those in Rachel, and to those in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to those in the cities of the Kenites, And to those in Hormah, and to those in Chor-Ashan, and to those in Athach, And to those in Hebron, and to all the places where David went about there, he and his men.
And it will be after the death of Saul, and David turned back from striking Amalek, and David sat down two days in Ziklag. And it will be in the third day, and behold, a man came from the camp from Saul, and his garments rent and dust upon his head: and it will be in his coming to David and he will fall to the earth and worship him. read more. And David will say to him, From whence wilt thou come? and he will say to him, From the camp of Israel I escaped. And David will say to him, What was the word? announce now to me. And he will say that the people fled from the battle, and also many fell from the people, and they will die and also Saul and Jonathan his son died. And David will say to the youth announcing to him, How knewest thou that Saul died, and Jonathan his son? And the youth announcing to him, will say, And happening, I happened to be upon mount Gilboa, and behold, Saul leaning upon his spear; and behold, the chariots and lords, the horsemen, pursued him. Anil he will look behind him and see me, and he will call to me; and I say, Behold me. And he will say to me, Who thou? and I shall say to him, I an Amalekite. And he will say to me, Stand now, upon me, and kill me, for perplexity seized me because my soul is yet all in me. And I shall stand upon him and kill him, for I knew that he will not live after his falling: and I shall take the diadem which upon his head, and the armband which upon his arm, and I shall bring them hither to my lord. And David will take hold upon his garments and will rend them; and also all the men which are with him. And they will mourn and weep, and fast, even till the evening, for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah and for the house of Israel, because they fell by the sword. And David will say to the youth announcing to him, From whence thou? and he will say, I the son of a man, a stranger, an Amalekite. And David will say to him, How, wert thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy Jehoyah's Messiah? And David will call to one of his youths and say, Come near, fall upon him. And he will strike him, and be will die. And David will say to him, Thy bloods upon thy head, for thy mouth answered against thee, saying, I killed Jehovah's Messiah.
Fausets
A city in southern Judah, associated with Chesil and Hormah (Jos 15:31; 19:5; 1Ch 4:30). Lieut. Conder identifies it with Zehleika or Khirbet Zuheilikah in the middle of the plain N. of Beersheba, 200 miles square, just where the narrative concerning David would lead us to look for it. The ruins are on three small hills, forming an equilateral triangle, almost half a mile apart; among the ruins are several cisterns. Simeon possessed it. Assigned by Achish king of Gath to David, for the Philistines had taken it.
Thence David went up against the Geshurites, Gezrites, and Amalekites (1Sa 27:8-9; 30:14,26), for these tribes occupied the plateau overhanging the Philistine plain to the W. and wady Murreh to the S. He resided there a year and four months; it was there he received daily new accessions of forces (1Ch 12:1-20), and heard of Saul's death (2Sa 1:1; 4:10); thence he went to Hebron (2Sa 2:1). Thus Ziklag lay at the confines of Philistia, Judah, and Amalek. Its position probably was in the open country, pastoral and amble, reached from the S. after passing out of wady er Ruheibeh. The term used in 1Sa 30:11 is "the field (sadeh) of the Philistines"; sadeh is applied to the country of Amalek (Ge 14:7). Reoccupied after the Babylonian captivity by the men of Judah (Ne 11:28).
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And they shall turn back and shall come to En-Mishpat; this is Kadesh; and they shall smite all the field of the Amalekites and also of the Amorites dwelling in Hazezon Tamar.
And David will go up, and his men, and will plunder against the Geshurites and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: and behold, the inhabitants of the land which were of old thy going to Shur, and even to the land of Egypt. And David struck the land, and will not save alive a man and woman; and he took the sheep and oxen, and asses and camels, and garments, and he will turn back and come to Achish.
And they will find a man, an Egyptian, in the field, and they will take him to David, and they will give to him bread, and he will eat; and they will give him water to drink;
We plundered the south of the Cherethite, and upon that to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and Ziklag we burnt with fire.
And David will come to Ziklag, and he will send from the spoil to the old men of Judah, to his neighbors, saving, Behold, to you a blessing from the spoil of the enemies of Jehovah.
And it will be after the death of Saul, and David turned back from striking Amalek, and David sat down two days in Ziklag.
And it will be after this, and David will ask in Jehovah, saying, Shall I go up into one of the cities of Judah? and Jehovah will say to him, Go up. And David will say, Whither shall I go up? and he will say, To Hebron.
When he announcing to me, saying, Behold, Saul died; and he was in his eyes as announcing good news; and I shall seize upon him and kill him in Ziklag, which I gave to him for the good news:
And And these coming to David to Ziklag, yet shut up from before Saul son of Kish: and they among the strong ones helping the war, Bending the bows from the right hands and from the left with stones and with arrows, with the bow from Saul's brethren of Benjamin: read more. The head, Ahiezer and Joash, sons of Shimeah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth and Berachah; and Jehu the Anathothite, And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a strong one among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah and Jahaziel and and Johanan and Josabad the Gederathite, Eluzai and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, Shephatiah the Haruphite, Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites, And Joelah, and Zebadiah, sons of Jeroham of Gedor. And of the Gadites they separated to David to the castle from the desert strong ones of power, men of the army for war, setting in array the shield and spear, and the face of a lion their faces, and as roes upon the mountain to make haste; Ezer the head, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third, Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh, Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth, Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh. These from the sons of Gad, heads of the army: one to a hundred the small, and the great to a thousand. These they who passed over Jordan in the first month, and it filling over all its banks; and they drove out all the valleys to the sunrising find to the west. And there will come from the sons of Benjamin and Judah even to the fortress to David: And David will go forth before them, and he will answer and say to them, If for peace ye came to me to help me, the heart will be together with you: and if to deceive me to mine enemy, in not being violence in my hand, the God of our fathers will see and decide And the spirit clothed Amasai, head of the thirty: To thee David, and with thee, son of Jesse: peace, peace to thee, and peace to thy help; for thy God helped thee. And David will receive them and give them for heads of the troops. And from Manasseh there fell to David in his going with the rovers against Saul to war; and he helped them not, for in counsel the princes of the rovers sent him away, saying, With our heads he will fall to his lord Saul. In his going to Ziklag there fell to him from Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael and Jozabad, Elihu, and Zilthai, the heads to the thousands which were to Manasseh.
Hastings
A town given by Achish king of Gath to the outlawed David (1Sa 27:6; 30:1 ff., 2Sa 1:1; 4:10; 1Ch 12:1,20). In the national register of cities it is assigned to Judah (Jos 15:31) or to Simeon (Jos 19:5), and is mentioned also in the post-exilic list (Ne 11:28). It has been identified with Zuheil
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And Achish will give to him in that day Ziklag; for this Ziklag was to the kings of Judah, even to this day.
And it will be in the going up of David to Ziklag, and his men, in the third day, and the Amalekites plundered to the south, and to Ziklag, and they will strike Ziklag and burn it with fire.
And it will be after the death of Saul, and David turned back from striking Amalek, and David sat down two days in Ziklag.
When he announcing to me, saying, Behold, Saul died; and he was in his eyes as announcing good news; and I shall seize upon him and kill him in Ziklag, which I gave to him for the good news:
Morish
Zik'lag
City in the south of Judah given to David by Achish, one of the Philistine kings. It was burned down by the Amalekites, and the inhabitants carried away during the absence of David; but the captives and the spoil were recovered. It afterwards returned to the tribe of Judah. A list is given of the warriors who resorted to David at Ziklag while Saul was yet alive, and therefore while David was in rejection by the nation. 1Ch 12:1-22. Amasai, chief of the captains, said "Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee." Cheering words to one thus placed! They were apparently a type of those who follow the Lord Jesus now while He is still rejected by the world at large. Jos 15:31; 19:5; 1Sa 27:6; 30:1-26; 2Sa 1:1; 4:10 , 1Ch 4:30; Ne 11:28. Identified by some with Asluj, 31 3' N, 34 48' E.; but ruins at Zuheilikah, some 17 miles N.W. of Beersheba have been preferred by others.
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And And these coming to David to Ziklag, yet shut up from before Saul son of Kish: and they among the strong ones helping the war, Bending the bows from the right hands and from the left with stones and with arrows, with the bow from Saul's brethren of Benjamin: read more. The head, Ahiezer and Joash, sons of Shimeah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth and Berachah; and Jehu the Anathothite, And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a strong one among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah and Jahaziel and and Johanan and Josabad the Gederathite, Eluzai and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, Shephatiah the Haruphite, Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites, And Joelah, and Zebadiah, sons of Jeroham of Gedor. And of the Gadites they separated to David to the castle from the desert strong ones of power, men of the army for war, setting in array the shield and spear, and the face of a lion their faces, and as roes upon the mountain to make haste; Ezer the head, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third, Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh, Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth, Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh. These from the sons of Gad, heads of the army: one to a hundred the small, and the great to a thousand. These they who passed over Jordan in the first month, and it filling over all its banks; and they drove out all the valleys to the sunrising find to the west. And there will come from the sons of Benjamin and Judah even to the fortress to David: And David will go forth before them, and he will answer and say to them, If for peace ye came to me to help me, the heart will be together with you: and if to deceive me to mine enemy, in not being violence in my hand, the God of our fathers will see and decide And the spirit clothed Amasai, head of the thirty: To thee David, and with thee, son of Jesse: peace, peace to thee, and peace to thy help; for thy God helped thee. And David will receive them and give them for heads of the troops. And from Manasseh there fell to David in his going with the rovers against Saul to war; and he helped them not, for in counsel the princes of the rovers sent him away, saying, With our heads he will fall to his lord Saul. In his going to Ziklag there fell to him from Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael and Jozabad, Elihu, and Zilthai, the heads to the thousands which were to Manasseh. And they helped with David against the troops: for strong ones of power all of them, and they will be chiefs in the army. For at the time day by day they will come to David to he him, even a great camp as the camp of God.
Smith
Zik'lag
(winding), a place which possesses a special interest from its having been the residence and the private property of David. It is first mentioned in the catalogue of the towns of Judah in
and occurs, in the same connection among the places which were allotted out of the territory of Judah to Simeon.
We next encounter it in the possession of the Philistines
when it was, at David's request, bestowed upon him by Achish king of Gath. He resided there for a year and four months.
1Sa 27:6-7; 30:14,26; 1Ch 12:1,20
It was there he received the news of Saul's death.
He then relinquished it for Hebron.
Ziklag is finally mentioned as being reinhabited by the people of Judah after their return from captivity.
The situation of the town is difficult to determine, and we only know for certain that it was in the south country.
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And Achish will give to him in that day Ziklag; for this Ziklag was to the kings of Judah, even to this day.
And Achish will give to him in that day Ziklag; for this Ziklag was to the kings of Judah, even to this day. And the number of days which David dwelt in the field of the rovers will be days and four months.
We plundered the south of the Cherethite, and upon that to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and Ziklag we burnt with fire.
And David will come to Ziklag, and he will send from the spoil to the old men of Judah, to his neighbors, saving, Behold, to you a blessing from the spoil of the enemies of Jehovah.
And it will be after the death of Saul, and David turned back from striking Amalek, and David sat down two days in Ziklag.
And it will be after this, and David will ask in Jehovah, saying, Shall I go up into one of the cities of Judah? and Jehovah will say to him, Go up. And David will say, Whither shall I go up? and he will say, To Hebron.
When he announcing to me, saying, Behold, Saul died; and he was in his eyes as announcing good news; and I shall seize upon him and kill him in Ziklag, which I gave to him for the good news:
Watsons
ZIKLAG, a city of the Philistines, first assigned to the tribe of Judah, and afterward to that of Simeon, Jos 15:31; 19:5; but it does not appear that the Philistines were ever driven out; as, when David fled into their country from Saul, Achish gave the city to him, 1Sa 27:5-6. It was afterward burned by the Amalekites, 1Sa 30:1. But it appears to have been rebuilt, as the author of the First Book of Samuel, when relating its being given to David, adds, that it pertained to the kings of Judah in his time.
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And David will say to Achish, If now I found grace in thine eyes, will they give me a place in one city of the field, and I will dwell there: and why shall thy servant dwell in the city of the kingdom with thee? And Achish will give to him in that day Ziklag; for this Ziklag was to the kings of Judah, even to this day.
And it will be in the going up of David to Ziklag, and his men, in the third day, and the Amalekites plundered to the south, and to Ziklag, and they will strike Ziklag and burn it with fire.